Thompson was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant in the Army Service Corps on 22 March 1915,[REF] and was promoted to lieutenant on 25 August 1915 [REF].
On 27 September 1918, in aircraft E2243, he downed a Halberstadt C north of Noyelles, before being shot down east of Cambrai by Oberleutnant Otto Schmidt of Jasta 5. Thompson was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on 2 November.