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Looking for Trouble: SAS to Gulf Command
By Peter de la Billière
SOE in the Low Countries
By M.R.D. Foot
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 213" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Thompson </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>William Frank </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>former H and B Squadron GHQ Liaison Regiment (Phantom) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Captain </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>124039 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>10th June 1944 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>23 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Sofia War Cemetery, Bulgaria Spec.Mem. </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Royal Artillery</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 17.8.1920 Darjeeling, India</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>resided Buckinghamshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Edward J.Thompson (1886-1946)(missionary and poet)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Edward John and Theodosia Jessup Thompson, Halifax, Yorkshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Winchester and New College, Oxford</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>member of Communist Party</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>joined Royal Artillery 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Phantom 1942 - September 1943 (Lt - Captain)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>memoir "There is a Spirit in Europe:a Memoir of Frank Thompson"(T.J. and E.P.Thompson - 1947)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>POW - executed Bulgaria (SOE op.Mulligatawny)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>served Phantom as Lieutenant and Captain (left Sep 1943) </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/w-f-thompson.9988/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/9/9988-0c57b2ec023a722b1df4ca63de669741.jpg?1591389698" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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