In Memory Of

PONSFORD, JAMES CECIL SPENCER

Service Details
Age:
 43
Date of Birth:
 1900-10-19
Service No:
 80801
Rank:
 Flight Lieutenant
Unit:
 357 Sqdn.
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
 1944-03-15
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, Hudson III AM949, at approximately 0300 on the 15th of March at position 23 degrees 44 min N, 98 deg 48 min E (near Kokang on the Burma/Siam Border). F/Lt Ponsford, died on the ground from wounds at 1000 on the 15th. The sixth and final crewman, F/O Prosser was found comatose with a fractured skull, lacerations of forehead and face, and multiple fractures of the right ankle
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Column 431.
Cemetery:
 SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
Country:
 Singapore
Additional Information
Son of Spencer and Lilian Ponsford; husband of Helen Ponsford, of Comrie, Perthshire. Born Cape Town, South Africa. Attended University of Glasgow Student: Science and Engineering, 1919-22