Sgt. Thompson was serving with 427 Squadron. He was a crew member of Halifax V LK 900 which took off from Leeming on a mission to Hanover. There is no account of the crash but all crew were killed.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the second World War Vol.4: 1943. W.R. Chorley; Midland Counties Publications 1996; ISBN 0 904597 90 3
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Thompson, R., Sgt., 1943
In Becklingen War Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of 1590783 Sergeant (Air Gunner) Roland Thompson, serving with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died 09/10/1943.
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