John Thomson - Military

Military

  • John Thomson (RAF officer) (1941–1994), one of the senior officers of the Royal Air Force, later Commander-in-Chief Strike Command
  • John Thomson (soldier) (died 1998), Deputy Steward of Oxford University and Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire

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