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Flying Officer ROBERT WYLIE THOMSON

Service Number: 138057

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

248 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 04 July 1944

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BENODET COMMUNAL CEMETERY

France

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Country of Service United Kingdom
Awards Distinguished Flying Cross
Additional Info Son of Archibald Thomson and of Catherine Thomson (nee Wylie), of Rutherglen, Lanarkshire.
Personal Inscription "THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD"

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