Percy Donald Thomson

Conflict:

WW2

Additional Information:

Son of John Wyatt and Gladys Rachel Thomson, of Kaipara Flats, Northland.

References:

CWGC

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

While on a training flight in Brunswick, Maine, with FAA 1842 squadron ( HMS Saker defines a USA posting), he collided with another of the squadrons aircraft, both crashing into the sea.

[For Your Tomorrow, Errol Martyn, Vol 2 p 233]

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Casualty

Name:

Percy Donald Thomson

Date of Birth:

Not known

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Unit:

Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve, HMS Saker

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Air Accident

Date of Death:

07 June 1944

Day of Death:

Wednesday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery:

New Zealand Naval Memorial, Devonport, Auckland

Cemetery Reference:

Panel 9.

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand