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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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Buried or commemorated at

BENODET COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Finistere France
Number of casualties: 2
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