Richard Chester Thompson (1922 - 2012)

Born 1 Jul 1922 in Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas

Ancestors

Husband of Joan Margaret (Bratty) Thompson — married 1950 in Toronto, Canada

Died 2 Oct 2012 at age 90 in Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas

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Biography

Chester Thompson is part of a Bahamian family.

First Lieutenant Chester Thompson served in the Royal Navy in World War II
Service started: 1942
Unit(s):
Service ended: 1945

Richard Chester Thompson was the fourth son born to William Maurice Thompson and Lena Muriel Albury Thompson of Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas.

He joined the British Royal Navy in 1942. He served on a minelayer in the North Sea and a destroyer escort in the North Atlantic. He commanded a tank landing craft that supported the Normandy invasion at Gold Beach.

Chester Thompson graduated from the University of Toronto in 1950 and that same year he married Joan Bratty in Toronto. They spent their first year of marriage at Fresh Creek, Andros; he was the Out Island Commissioner. The couple subsequently moved to Nassau and Chester started a career in real estate. They had three daughters.

Chester was the author of The Fledgling, the story of a young boy growing up in Hope Town, Abaco, and The Long Day Wanes ... A Memoir of Love and War.

He died in 2012 in Nassau, Bahamas.

Sources

Paternal Line Descendant Charts, Bahamas DNA Project.

ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE TEMPORARY SUB-LIEUTENANTS,1943, Volume 2, page1453, 1943.

Florida Passenger Lists, 1898-1964.

Obituary, Memorial Service, Nassau, Bahamas.