THOMPSON, John Charles
| Service Number: | 427039 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Warrant Officer |
| Last Unit: | No. 619 Squadron (RAF) |
| Born: | Bridgetown, Western Australia, 2 October 1922 |
| Home Town: | Bridgetown, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Student |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, 12 December 2010, aged 88 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Warrant Officer, 427039, No. 619 Squadron (RAF) |
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Warrant Officer John Charles Thompson (Service No:427039) enlisted in the RAAF on 26 April 1942. He was attached to 619 Squadron when he was Discharged on 11 October 1947. Brothers James and Wilfred also served in WWII.
Born in 1922 in Bridgetown WA, John was the youngest of three children of John (Jack) Joseph Thompson (b1886 in Durham, England) and Ellinor (Nell) Cumming (b1891 in Bridgewater, Victoria). Jack (a Draper's Assistant in Scotland) emmigrated in 1912, arriving in Fremantle WA on board the Armadale (he gave his occupation as Farm Hand). Nell had moved to Bridgetown with her mother in the early 1900's following her parents' divorce. Jack and Nell met at Nell's mother's Bridgetown Coffee Palace where he was a Boarder, and married in 1917. Following Jack's death in 1924, Nell remarried Charles (Charlie) Unstead - a Farmer. Charlie served in the ACMF in WWII.
John returned to Perth WA following his service in WWII and was a student at University Hostel in Nedlands in 1949. He married Mary Vescina Jocelyn Robinson (b1926 in Christchurch, new Zealand) and the couple settled in Adelaide, South Australia. Mary died in 1999 and John in 2010.
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