Letter to Mr and Mrs Thomson from Air Ministry Casualty Branch

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Title

Letter to Mr and Mrs Thomson from Air Ministry Casualty Branch

Description

Notifies them that their son, Sergeant George Buchanan Thomson was missing as a result of air operations on night 12/12 September 1944 when the Lancaster aircraft in which he was the navigator set out to bomb Frankfurt was not heard from again. Does not mean he was killed and enquires were being made through Red Cross. Any information received would be passed on.

Creator

Date

1944-09-21

Temporal Coverage

Language

Format

Two page typewritten letter

Rights

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

Identifier

ESmithJAThomsonW440921

Collection

Citation

J A Smith, “Letter to Mr and Mrs Thomson from Air Ministry Casualty Branch,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed June 14, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/51512.