In Memory Of
ORR, THOMAS CLARENCE FIELD
Service Details
Age:
28
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
1332202
Rank:
Sergeant
Unit:
15 Sqdn.
Regiment:
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
1942-09-16
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, Stirling BF353, Target Essen. 369 aircraft, 39 losses. Bombing was scattered but this was a successful raid on a difficult target. Considerable damage sustained at the strategic Krupps works and bombs also fell in neighbouring Wuppertal and Bochum, crashed in the Ijsselmeer, 10 km NW of Harderwijk
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Plot 69. Row D. Joint grave 8.
Cemetery:
AMSTERDAM NEW EASTERN CEMETERY
Country:
Netherlands
Additional Information
Son of Thomas George and Eva Beryl Orr, of Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. Awarded Emma Smith Scholarship (Natal) in Art, 1938.
