Name
Anthony (Tony) William Ingram
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
25/08/1943
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
571510
Royal Air Force
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BRANDON CEMETERY, MANITOBA
Lot 111. Block B. Sec. 29.
Canada
Headstone Inscription
The memory of his quiet smile will live forever in our hearts. Rest in peace (Non-CWGC)
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial
Biography
He joined the R.A.F. in 1936 as an aircraft apprentice with the Service Number 571510 having previously been employed by Brookers of Nightingale Rd, Hitchin. At the outbreak of war he volunteered to become an Air Gunner taking part in several raids on Germany. On returning from one raid he bailed out over Northumberland which entitled him to become a member of the Caterpillar Club.
In May 1943 he was sent to Canada and made an instructor at 33 Service Flying Training School, No. 2 R.C.A.F. Training Command with the rank of Serjeant Pilot.
He was killed in a flying accident at Calgary. The student with him was also killed. They were on a night-flying exercise when the accident occurred, which was near 33SFTS at Carberry, Manitoba. His funeral was in Brandon with full military honours.
He is buried in Lot 111, Block B, Section 29 in the Brandon Cemetery, Canada. His gravestone shows his date of death as the 251 h August 1943. There is a private inscription on the gravestone reading "The memory of his quiet smile will live forever in our hearts. Rest in peace".
He was the only son of Mr and Mrs H. Ingram of the Conservative Club in Hitchin. Mr Ingram senior had been a bandmaster in the R.A.F. during the Great War.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Winnipeg Free Press dated 27th August 1943, Paul Johnson - local historian, Herts Pictorial dated 31st Aug 1943
