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Identity
Person No.
21427
Service No.
160150
Last Name
First Name
Thomas Bryan
Initials
T B
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Military Service
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause of Death
Killed in action, Wesseling Raid 21/22 June 1944, Lancaster ME804 took off from RAF Dumholme Lodge at 2326 on an operation to bomb the oil refinery works at Wesseling along with 132 other Lancasters and Mosquitoes, shot down by German nightfighter
Additional Information
Notes

Son of Thomas Owen and Hylda Mary Richards, of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. Born on September 6th, 1922, and entered Gaul House in January, 1938. Having passed the Cambridge School Certificate Examination, Richards left Plumbtree in April, 1940, and shortly afterwards he attested in the R.A.F., receiving his preliminary training in Rhodesia before proceeding overseas. On Plumtree School Roll of Honour

Citation
Unknown
External Source
Unknown
South African War Graves Project

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