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Claude Goodwin Thompson

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Identity

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Claude Goodwin AWMM
  • Surname
    Thompson AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
    Tommy AWMM
  • Service number
    • WWII 403783 AWMM
    • WWII NZ403783 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    15 March 1913 AWMM Opotiki, Bay of Plenty AWMM
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  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    WW2 Mrs E Thompson (wife), Christchurch AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

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Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
  • Occupation before enlistment
  • Age on enlistment

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
    • WW2
      Java, Indonesia AWMM
      Mar 1942 AWMM
    • WW2 POW - Bicycle Camp, Batavia, Java AWMM
    • WW2 POW - Singapore River Valley Camp, Singapore Chris Brooks POW research
    • WW2 POW - Sumatra Railway, Pekanbaru, Sumatra Chris Brooks POW research
      Pakan Baroe AWMM
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  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
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Medical history

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • NZ403783 Claude Goodwin Thompson was a Sergeant Pilot with 100 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, in Singapore during the Second World War. He was captured by the Japanese in Java in 1942 and spent the next three-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war in Indonesia until liberation and being repatriated in 1945.

    Wrote a memoir of his experiences as a prisoner of war over three and a half years: Thompson, Claude Goodwin. "Into the sun". Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-1102.

    Captured in Java but escaped. Re-Captured Thailand. Involved in the Thailand / Burma Railway and Sumatra Railway. AWMM
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Death

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  • Death
    4 March 2000 AWMM
    Age 87 AWMM
    Warkworth, Northland AWMM
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  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
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  • Cemetery
    Kaipara Flats Cemetery AWMM Plot 31, Row 3, RSA Section AWMM
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Sources

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    • Thompson, Claude G. Into the sun. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 1102. AWMM
    • Information kindly provided by family AWMM
    • Information on Japanese-run internment (prisoner of war) camps was kindly provided by Chris Brooks. More than 350 Japanese-run military prisoner-of-war and civilian internment and concentration camps were run throughout the "Far East" during World War II. AWMM
    • List of RNZAF [Royal New Zealand Air Force] Personnel - Embarkation Lists, November 1940 - July 1942. Archives New Zealand, Wellington (R17845762). AWMM

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