{"id":24180,"date":"2022-09-30T01:03:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T05:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=24180"},"modified":"2022-09-30T00:48:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T04:48:00","slug":"sgt-leonard-e-thompson-combat-cameraman-ww2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/sgt-leonard-e-thompson-combat-cameraman-ww2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sgt Leonard E Thompson: Combat Cameraman WW2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24182\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/combat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24182\" class=\"wp-image-24182 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/combat-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kew, England July, 1943 (Thompson at left) courtesy of Deleyne Wentz<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Being a small country (population), and a relatively new country, we seldom see our heros get recognition. Sgt Thomson is a fine example. The Canadian Film &amp; Photo Unit website recounts many tales of the Canadian photographers who recorded WW2 overseas.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/canadianfilmandphotounit.ca\/2022\/02\/28\/sgt-leonard-e-thompson-combat-cameraman\/\">February 28, \u00a02022 this site told the story<\/a> of Sgt Thompson of Regina courtesy of his daughter and grand daughter. Have a look at the story and those of others who were part of the CFP Unit.<\/p>\n<p>A deep felt thank you to my good friend and fellow photo-history enthusiast, George Dunbar, for discovering the Canadian Film &amp; Photo Unit website article on Sgt Thompson and sharing it with us along with the newspaper article below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24181\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Len-Thompson-lower-left.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Len-Thompson-lower-left.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Len-Thompson-lower-left-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Len-Thompson-lower-left-1024x1019.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Len-Thompson-lower-left-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Len-Thompson-lower-left-768x764.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Being a small country (population), and a relatively new country, we seldom see our heros get recognition. Sgt Thomson is a fine example. The Canadian Film &amp; Photo Unit website recounts many tales of the Canadian photographers who recorded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/sgt-leonard-e-thompson-combat-cameraman-ww2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[93,5,220,3245,578],"class_list":["post-24180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-movie","tag-photographer","tag-photos","tag-still","tag-ww2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24193,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24180\/revisions\/24193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}