Arthur J. Thomas, Jr. (c.1918 - 1950)

Arthur Thomas grew up in Kingston, Pennsylvania. He had been a student at the Pennington School in New Jersey and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1938. He left the College after his freshman year and served more than four years as an artillery officer during the Second World War.

Thomas lost his life in the crash of a "troop train" on a stretch of railway line near West Lafayette, Ohio on September 11, 1950. In the accident, scores of his fellow members of the 28th Division of the Pennsylvania National Guard being transported west were also killed. He was survived by his wife and four infant children.

More information about other Dickinson war casualties can be found through the online project "In Remembrance" (see link for related entries below).