Henry Thomson (footballer)

Henry Thomson
Personal information
Full name	Griffith Henry Thomson
Date of birth	6 October 1906
Date of death	21 May 1943 (aged 36)[1]
Place of death	Burma
Original team(s)	Ararat
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1930	Carlton	1 (0)
^1 Playing statistics correct to end of 1930 season.

Griffith Henry Thompson (6 October 1906 – 21 May 1943) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).^[2] He volunteered for service soon after Australia's declaration of war against Germany, and was moved to Batavia (Now Jakarta). While posted there with the Royal Australian Army Pay Corps, he was captured in 1942 as the Japanese army moved south. He was put to work on the Burma Railway, and died while working on the railway in May 1943.

Notes

1. "Roll of Honour - Griffith Henry Thomson". Australian War Memorial.
2. Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2009). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 825. ISBN 978-1-921496-00-4.

External links

• Henry Thomson's statistics from AFL Tables
• Henry Thomson's profile at Blueseum