Personnel Index - Detail

Name
MORRIS
First Names
Thomas Harrison
Rank
P/O
Service
RCAF
Service Number
J88860
Crew Position
Air Gunner
PoW Camp(s)
-
Age
20
Date of Death
27/04/1944
Cemetery

 

Photographed by Malcolm Brooke



Image courtesy of the Veterans Affairs, Canada website (via Alain Trouplin)

26/27 April, 1944; SCHWEINFURT:

Mosquitoes of 627 Squadron, Woodhall Spa, used 5 Group's low-level marking technique for the first time. The attempt was not accurate and much of the bombing fell outside Schweinfurt.
The squadron was to suffer the heavy loss of three crews this night: F/Lt Bob Armstrong DFC and crew were all killed and are buried alongside each other in the Durnbach War Cemetery in Germany.

Lancaster ND687 (EA-)
F/L R.G. Armstrong DFC Pilot (Killed)
Sgt D.E. Endean F/E (Killed)
F/S R.G. Osborne NAV (Killed)
Sgt S.F. Foster W/OP (Killed)
Sgt D.J. Cooper A/G (Killed)
W/O L.T. Kennedy RCAF B/A (Killed)
P/O T.H. Morris RCAF A/G (Killed)

Crew on their 5th operation