Service Details
Name:
 POWER
Given Name:
 THOMAS HENRY
Initials:
 T H
Service No:
 778440
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 106 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1942-04-16
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Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Manchester I L7485, took off 2050 16 April 1942 from Coningsby on this crew's first operation to lay mines in the Deodar region. Presumed lost in the English Channel. Deodars Region was the minelaying area code name for the mouth of the Gironde River the Air Staff Operations Summery confirms that mines were dropped " off Verdon (Gironde)" that night. Aircraft crashed off Batz-sur-Mer between Belle-lle and Batz. An engine of this aircraft caught in fishing net and is in an aviation museum at Le Baule, France
Additional
Information:
On St. George's College War Memorial, Harare, Zimbabwe. RAF Number: Enlistments in Rhodesia
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Surrey
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Cemetery:
 RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 91.

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