Identity
Person No.
18288
Service No.
542620V
Last Name
First Name
Walter Thomas
Initials
W T
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
27
Military Service
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,310
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, Vickers Wellington Mk XI #HZ522, missing on patrol. Scrambled to go to the assistance of a Sunderland flying boat that had sent out a distress signal. No one knows what happened but towards evening another Sunderland spotted burning wreckage on the surface of the sea far away from where the crews of the originally missing Sunderland were eventually picked up by the hospital ship "Chantilly". The Wellington and its crew were officially posted "missing". After a few hours the posting was reclassified to "presumed dead". Subsequent searches found no trace of the missing Wellington or its 6 crew
Grave Reference
Location
Notes
Son of John Louis and Ivy Maud Nagel, of Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa. Born Port Elizabeth. A salesman
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