Career
Thompson joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1936. Canada was not officially at war with Germany until the following day.Thompson was taken to Berlin and made to pose in propaganda photos with Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goerring. Those pictures may later have saved his life.
Thompson was sent to several Prisoner Of War camps before ending up at Stalag Luft III near Sagan.
There, he was recruited for the Great Escape. Thompson made it through tunnel "Harry" but was recaptured soon after.
As a single man with no children, Thompson was vulnerable to execution, but he carried with him the propaganda photo. Thompson spent every day of the war as a Prisoner Of War. He returned to university after the war.
He became a lawyer, and later a Crown prosecutor, in Simcoe County, Ontario.
He died at his home town of Penetanguishene.
