LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer David McNab THOMSON
Service No: 421118
Born: Kogarah NSW, 29 November 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 7 December 1941
Unit: No. 192 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 192 Squadron Halifax aircraft LW621), France, 5 July 1944, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Calais Canadian War Cemetery, Leubringhen, Pas de Calais, France
CWGC Additional Information: Son of David Thomson and Marian Cowan Thomson, of Yarraville, Victoria, Australia; husband of Meriel Joyce Thomson of Summertown, Oxford
Roll of Honour: Melbourne VIC
Remembered: Panel 131, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Halifax LW621 took off at 2349 hours on 4 July 1944 to attack the railway yards at Villeneuve-St-Georges, France. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return to base. The aircraft was believed to have ditched near the French Coast and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of LW621 were:
Pilot Officer Aidan Aiston (176489) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Pilot Officer William Birkin (169533) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant Tom Charlesworth (1459565) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Eric Arthur Padley (1604035) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant George Richards (979317) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant William Frank Schofield (1812070) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Ronald Leonard Smith (157915) (RAFVR) (Special Equipment (RCM) Operator)
Pilot Officer David McNab Thomson (421118) (Pilot)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Chorley W R, Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 5 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1944, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1997
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A9300, Thomson D M