Service Details
Name:
 ORR
Given Name:
 THOMAS CLARENCE FIELD
Initials:
 T C F
Service No:
 1332202
Trade:
 Obs.
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 15 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1942-09-16
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Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Stirling BF353, Target Essen. 369 aircraft, 39 losses. Bombing was scattered but this was a successful raid on a difficult target. Considerable damage sustained at the strategic Krupps works and bombs also fell in neighbouring Wuppertal and Bochum, crashed in the Ijsselmeer, 10 km NW of Harderwijk
Additional
Information:
Son of Thomas George and Eva Beryl Orr, of Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. Awarded Emma Smith Scholarship (Natal) in Art, 1938.
Commemoration
Country:
 Netherlands
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Cemetery:
 AMSTERDAM NEW EASTERN CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Plot 69. Row D. Joint grave 8.

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