Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Thompson was killed when Handley Page Halifax II LW246 NP-Z of 158 Squadron was lost on a training flight. The Halifax broke up in mid-air due to a structural failure, and crashed near Fardon, Yorkshire The crew of seven, plus two unauthorised passengers including one W.A.A.F., were killed.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943;W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 90 3, page 320
He is remembered in Billingham on B139.05 and in Stockton on S138.19 page 23
