Christopher W. Thompson
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Age: 25
From: N. Wilkesboro, N.C.
Assigned to Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 8th Regimental Combat Team, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Forces Atlantic, based in Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Incident: Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Christopher W. Thompson was killed Oct. 21 by an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations in Anbar province, Iraq.
Died: October 21, 2005
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Wilkes County sailor killed in Iraq
Associated Press
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A Wilkes County sailor who was assigned to the Marines has died in Iraq in a roadside bomb attack, his parents said.
Hospitalman 3rd Class Chris Thompson and another member of the 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) were killed Friday in the bombing near Amiriyah, 25 miles west of Baghdad. Thompson, 25, was riding in the left rear seat of an armored vehicle when an improvised explosive device was set off, his parents, Larry and Geraldine Thompson, said.
They received the news Friday evening.
Thompson’s executive officer said he was proud to go to war with Thompson, his brother, David Thompson said.
“He knew if something happened, he’d take care of them,” David Thompson said. “If things were worst, he’d be the first one to step up.”
David Thompson also is a Navy...