Major-General Chris Thompson 05/02/2008 Major-General Chris Thompson, who has died aged 74, served with the Royal Engineers' Bomb Disposal Unit and subsequently became Director of Military Survey. Christopher Noel Thompson, the son of a brigadier who served in the 5th Gurkha Rifles, was born at Abbatabad, Pakistan, (formerly India), on Christmas Day 1932. Educated at Wellington, he attended RMA Sandhurst and then went up to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he read Mechanical Sciences. Commissioned into the Royal Engineers, Thompson was posted to 25 Field Squadron in Germany before serving with a Bomb Disposal Unit in England. [snip] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/02/05/db0503.xml ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India