Name
Thomas Cecil James
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
22/11/1944
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Flying Officer
145058
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
61 Sqdn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
Panel 207.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Biography
His Service Number was 145058 and he served with 61 Squadron which, at the time of his death, was flying Lancaster bombers from Skellingthorpe near Lincoln. He was the pilot of Lancaster I NG179 QR-C that took off at 15.55hrs on an operation against U-Boat pens al Trondheim in Norway. The aircraft disappeared without trace.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Panel 207 of the Runnymede Memorial to the Missing at Egham in Surrey.
He was the son of Thomas John and Olive James of Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, ‘RAF Squadrons’ by C.G. Jefford, ‘Bomber Command Losses - I 944’ by W.R. Chorley
