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Incident
Cst. Thompson was raised in Gimli, Manitoba and was able to speak Icelandic fluently. He died at Selkirk, Manitoba, of injuries received while on duty on September 26, 1957, when Police Transport was struck by the wheels of a landing aircraft near Lethbridge Airport, Alberta. He is buried in the Cemetery of Gimli. Constable Joseph Thor Thompson Constable Joseph Thor Thompson Inscription on grave marker Constable Joseph Thor Thompson
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Constable Thor Thompson served with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Constable Thor Thompson.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Constable Joseph Thor Thompson is one of 260 officers lost under undetermined circumstances across the full record of this memorial — 0.8% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In ON, 236 of 334 officers were lost under undetermined circumstances — 70.7% of this state's fallen. That is 69.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0.8%.
At Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 236 of 333 officers on record were lost under undetermined circumstances — 70.9% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
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How Joseph Thor Thompson Compares
When Undetermined Deaths Occur
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Incident Location
Gimli, MB.
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