The family of a British pilot considered missing in action for more than 70 years have finally been reunited with the ring he was wearing when his plane crashed. The plane special operation pilot Sgt John Thompson was flying crashed in Albania on October 29, 1944 whilst transporting assistance to local anti-Nazi fighters. Today, his 92-year-old sister Dorothy Webster received his ring from a family in Albania together with a box of debris from his Halifax bomber. Scroll down for video . 70 years later: Albanian Xhemil Cala, right, puts the ring of the deceased 23-year old British pilot Sgt. John Thompson, onto the finger of his sister Dorothy Webster in Tirana, Albania today . In 1960, Jaho Cala found Mr Thompson's finger with the ring on it at Sinoi Mountain, 25 miles north of the Albanian capital Tirana. He kept the ring and hid it at his home, afraid to show it to the then-communist authorities. Mr Cala asked his son Xhemil to look for the family of the owner, and after his father died, Xhemil contacted the embassies of the US and Britain - the two countries that helped liberate Albania from the Nazis a month after Mr Thompson's death. After three months, the British embassy confirmed the ring was Mr Thompson's and told his family. Ms Webster, a year younger than her brother, was accompanied by four of his nephews and other family members at a ceremony at the Albanian Defence Ministry today. The ring was recovered with Sgt John Thompson's finger in 1960 25 miles north of the Albanian capital Tirana . 'She was over the moon when they told us, ringing everybody,' Ms Webster's son Brian said. 'Our grandfather and grandmother never locked the house in Matlock, Derbyshire, waiting for their missed son.' British authorities never told them anything about their uncle 'because he was part of a secret operation in Albania', according to Philip Thompson, one of the nephews. Dorothy Webster, with a box of debris from her brother's Halifax bomber, which crashed in the eastern European country in 1944 . The ring was found at Sinoi Mountain (pictured), 25 miles north of the Albanian capital Tirana . Sgt John Thompson crashed in Albania whilst transporting assistance to local anti-Nazi fighters in a Handley Page Halifax bomber (like model above)
Second World War pilot Sgt John Thompson crashed in Albania in 1944 . In 1960 Albanian man found Mr Thompson's finger with the ring on it . He hid it away but before dying told son, Xhemil Cala, to try to find owner . After a lengthy search, the ring was presented to the pilot's 92-year-old sister Dorothy Webster today in Tirana .