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Signalman ALEXANDER WILSON THOMPSON

Service Number: 14395838
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

1st Airborne Div. Sigs.

Date of Death

Died 25 September 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

2. B. 6.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Francis James Thompson and Mary Christina Thompson, of Liverpool; husband of Hilda Thompson, of Speke, Liverpool.
  • Personal Inscription SLEEPING WITH THE BRAVE. YOUR LIFE FOR YOUR COUNTRY YOU NOBLY GAVE
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Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1772
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