Jack Irvine THOMPSON

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Service Number:	403437
Enlisted:	6 January 1941
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Manilla, New South Wales, Australia, 23 April 1922
Home Town:	Bexley, Rockdale, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Flying Battle, Aegean Sea, Middle East, 15 February 1943, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Alamein Memorial, El Alamein War Cemetery, El Alamein, Marsa Matruh, Egypt
Memorials:	Alamein Memorial (El Alamein), Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 403437
6 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 403437

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Marauder FK150 of 14 Squadron RAF crashed into the Aegean Sea with all crew killed:

Hope, Robert Edward Herbert (Flight Sergeant) 407363 RAAF

Thompson, Jack Irvine (Flight Sergeant) 403437 RAAF

Truman, Colin Carl (Pilot Officer) 402766 RAAF

Connell, Bernard Thomas (Flying Officer) 402853 RNZAF

Firth, Kenneth (Sergeant) RAF 1068543

Semple, William James (Sergeant) RAF 542705

Their bodies were not recovered and they are commemorated on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt