THOMSON, Donal Thurston Murray

Rank: 
Temporary Lieutenant (Acting Temporary Captain)
Unit / Base: 
40RM Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Marines
Service: 
Royal Navy
Honours & Awards: 
Died : 
Monday, September 1, 1958
Also served 47RM Commando August 1943 *.
Captain Donal Thomson, 40RM Commando, received a Mention in Despatches for devotion to duty during operations in the Mediterranean theatre in 1944**.
Post war Donal Thomson served as an Assistant Police Superintendent in Cyprus. He was shot dead by terrorists at Nicosia on the 1st September 1958***.
 
Sources
* Navy Lists August 43 (linked content below).
** London Gazette 36979, page 1386.
*** Commando Association newsletter 28 issued March 1959.
 

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