South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 10 January 1942.

Wath Pilot’s Fate

Now Presumed Killed in Action

Official intimation has now been received that Acting Squadron Leader Hugh Frederick Thompson, youngest son of the late Mr and Mrs R.J.L.Thompson, of Fitzwilliam Street, Wath on Dearne, must be presumed killed. Acting Squadron Leader Thompson was posted missing on August 1st, 1941 after an operational flight in which it is believed the aircraft he was piloting came down in the sea a few miles from enemy occupied territory.

He was 27 years of age and leaves a wife and an Infant son born on November 2nd. 1941. He was educated at Oundle School and Trinity Hall. Cambridge, where he took his B A. degree in law. He gained his Blue for athletics at which he had previously distinguished himself at Oundle, breaking the school high jump record in two successive years.
In 1935 he joined Messrs. Dunlops, and went out to Malaya, where he was engaged for two years on the rubber plantations before joining the Royal Air Force in 1937.

He has seen much active service with the Bomber Command. He was married in February 1910, and he and he wife had made their home in the South.

Mrs Thompson has since been informed through the Red Cross that her husband has been buried at Flushing.

From C.W.G.C.

SQUADRON LEADER HUGH FREDERICK THOMSON
Service Number: 36094
Regiment & Unit/Ship Royal Air Force 107 Sqdn.

Date of Death: Died 01 August 1941

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at FLUSHING (VLISSINGEN) NORTHERN CEMETERY, Row A. Grave 18, Netherlands

Additional Info
Son of Reginald John Lampton Thomson and Dora Thomson; husband of Murna Thomson (nee Rolleston). B.A.(Cantab.); Athletic Blue.

Personal Inscription
R.I.P.