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Military service
Service number:
J/87559
Age:
22
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
640 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth:
May 31, 1921
Bristol, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
October 10, 1941
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
May 13, 1944
Overseas, Belgium
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave IVa. E. 36-42.
Additional information
Son of Harold E. Thomas, and of Agnes T. Thomas, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Douglas Osborne Thomas
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Photo of DOUGLAS OSBORNE THOMAS
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Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper clipping
P/O Thomas was Pilot and served on 640 (RAF) Squadron. Halifax LW 499 was airborne 2201 on 12 May 1944 from their home base at Leconfield, Yorkshire, on a mission to attack the railway yards at Hasslet, Belgium. Three of the Squadron’s Halifaxes were lost. LW499 was shot down by a night-fighter. Those killed were buried 15 May 1944 in Antwerpen-Deurne and reburied in the Schoonselhof Cemetery.<P> One member of the crew, Sgt. J. S. Scott, survived and was taken Prisoner of War. Also killed was the 25-year old navigator, F/O John I. Atkins from Newmarket, ON; F/S G. H. Rose, RAAF, and 3 RAF members: Sgt. C. G. Lee, Sgt. D. S. Campbell, and Sgt. L. R. Gee. Information from //lostbombers.co.uk; CWGC -
Cemetery
Cross of Sacrifice located in Plots 4 & 4A … Schoonselhof Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Entrance … Schoonselhof Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
View of Plot 3 … Schoonselhof Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Grave marker … Schoonselhof Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Douglas Osborne Thomas is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer Douglas Osborne Thomas is commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Document
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Circumstances of death
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Photo of DOUGLAS OSBORNE THOMAS
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Id card
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Attestation paper
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Letter
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Document
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Osborne Thomas
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Osborne Thomas
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Osborne Thomas
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Osborne Thomas
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Osborne Thomas
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Osborne Thomas
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Osborne Thomas
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Osborne Thomas
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Douglas Osborne Thomas
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 460 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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