F/Officer Thompson was serving with 30 O.T.U. He was a crew member of Wellington X NA718 BT-O which took off from Gamston on an air test. Something went wrong and in an attempt to glide back the aircraft crashed three miles from the runway. F/O Thompson had over 1,100 hours flying time. Both men were killed.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses Volume 7: Operational Training Units 1940-1947; W.R. Chorley; 2002; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 132 6
He is remembered in Heaton Grammar School H91.02
