Service Details
Name:
 DAVIES
Given Name:
 HIRAM TOM
Initials:
 H T
Service No:
 1388039
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Flight Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 76 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-03-02
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Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Halifax LW629, target Stuttgart, 557 aircraft, 4 losses due mainly to the cloudy conditions preventing the night-fighters infiltrating the bomber stream. The target was also cloudy and crews were generally unable to gauge how successful the raid had been on their return. Several important industrial buildings were hit including the Bosch and Daimler-Benz works. Many other buildings damaged in recent raids were completely razed. 125 deaths and 510 injuries on the ground
Additional
Information:
Son of Cpl. Hiram Morecroft Davies, 6th Middlesex Bn. Home Guard (died on active service. 11th September, 1940), and of Ethel Gwenllian Davies, of Bellevue, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Meurthe-et-Moselle
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Cemetery:
 CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 1A. B. 17.

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