In Memory Of

RICHARDS, THOMAS BRYAN

Service Details
Age:
 21
Date of Birth:
 1922-09-06
Service No:
 160150
Rank:
 Pilot Officer
Unit:
 44 Sqdn.
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
 1944-06-22
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Lancaster ME804, took off from RAF Dumholme Lodge Wesseling Raid, 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
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave 4465-4467.
Cemetery:
 GENK COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Genk, Limburg
Country:
 Belgium
Additional Information
Son of Thomas Owen and Hylda Mary Richards, of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. 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