22 SAS Thompson, Henry Arthur Irwin

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Thompson ​

• FORENAME

Henry Arthur Irwin ​

• UNIT

HQ (Operations Officer) ​

• RANK

Major ​

• NUMBER

189285 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

4th May 1963 ​

• AGE

41 ​

• GRAVESITE

Trusan Valley Memorial, Sarawak, East Malaysia Collective grave ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Royal Highland Fusiliers​

born 2.11.1921​

married​

2 children​

awards M.C., Mention in Despatches​

killed in helicopter crash near Long Merarap, Sarawak​

Belvedere XG473 of 66 Squadron RAF​

Terendak Military Cemetery, Malacca, West Malaysia Memorial Wall ​

 

[galcock]

Henry Arthur Irwin Thompson

I lived at the SAS barracks almost next door to Major thompsons family home. I was 16 at the time and attended Lucton School. My father was Captain John Alcock MTO officer.

 

[Beverly Stacey]

The 60th anniversary of this crash is tomorrow. The soldier who exhumed all nine of the dead and reburied them, held a funeral service, built the memorial and the memorial gardens is now 90 and still going strong. He told me this whole story this morning when I took him out for coffee and he told me the whole story. His name is Hugh Cave and he's an incredible man. https://www.marsandminerva.co.uk/memorials/trusan-valley-memorial/ Hugh and his late wife Colleen are in the centre of this photograph.