Name
David Arthur Thomson
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
02/10/1944
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
14351150
Royal Artillery
21 Anti-Tank Regt.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY
23. B. 6.
Netherlands
Headstone Inscription
HE BRAVELY FOUGHT FOR THOSE HE LOVED AND LEFT US TO REMEMBER
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St. Saviour's Church Memorial, Hitchin, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
He was born in Hertfordshire and had worked for Chater-Lea for two years before being called up in November 1942 into the Royal Artillery with the Service Number 14351150. He was a Hertfordshire resident at the time he enlisted He later transferred to the 21st Anti-Tank Regiment in the 21st Army Group Guards Armoured Division 2nd B.L.A. and went to France shortly after D-Day. He fought in France, Belgium and Holland where he was fatally wounded in the corridor towards Arnhem during the attempt to relieve the Airborne units.
He is buried in Plot 23, Row B, Grave 6, in Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Nijmegen., Holland.
He was the eldest son of David and Minnie Thomson of 34, Common Rise, Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Paul Johnson - local historian, ‘Victory in the West’ by L.F. Ellis, Herts Pictorial dated 24th October 1944
