Service Details
Name:
 PONSFORD
Given Name:
 JAMES CECIL SPENCER
Initials:
 J C S
Service No:
 80801
Rank:
 Flight Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 357 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-03-15
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Date of Birth:
 1900-10-19
Age:
 43
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, Hudson III AM949, at approximately 0300 on the 15th of March at position 23 degrees 44 min N, 98 deg 48 min E (near Kokang on the Burma/Siam Border). F/Lt Ponsford, died on the ground from wounds at 1000 on the 15th. The sixth and final crewman, F/O Prosser was found comatose with a fractured skull, lacerations of forehead and face, and multiple fractures of the right ankle
Additional
Information:
Son of Spencer and Lilian Ponsford; husband of Helen Ponsford, of Comrie, Perthshire. Born Cape Town, South Africa. Attended University of Glasgow Student: Science and Engineering, 1919-22
Commemoration
Country:
 Singapore
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Cemetery:
 SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Column 431.

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