Christopher joined a Territorial battalion of the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry whilst at Exeter College, Oxford. Mobilised at the outbreak of war he was posted to India in 1942 and was for a time attached to the Royal Indian Army Service Corps, later being posted to the Somerset Light Infantry and sent to Burma. The battalion fought as part of the 14th Army, the so-called “forgotten army” in the Burma campaign led by Field-Marshall Bill Slim.

Christopher was killed at the age of 26 on Wednesday 26^th January 1944 while leading an attempt to silence a Japanese gun position on a hilltop. He is one of three OWs to be commemorated on the Rangoon Memorial, Taukkyan War Cemetery, Mingaladon township, Myanmar.

Son of John Arthur Thomas & Phyllis May Thomas, of Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire.

A copy of Christopher's story may be downloaded here.

See also the Commonwealth War Graves Commission permanent digital memorial, ‘Evermore: Stories of the fallen’ relating to:-
Lieutenant Christopher THOMAS