Clayton, Thomas Roy (Flight Sergeant)

Took off from East Kirkby at 21:43 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code DX-M Bomber Command) on an operation to bomb the military camp at Mailly-le-Camp France.

Home-bound intercepted and shot down by a night fighter and crashed SW of le Vaudoue (Seine-et-Marne) some 23 km SW of Melun France.

Killed includes Clayton: Flight Sergeant James Kenneth Morey RCAF R/195667 KIA Le Vaudoue Communal Cemetery Grave 5. Sergeant George Henry Norton RAF KIA Le Vaudoue Communal Cemetery Joint grave 1. Flight Sergeant Henry Mitchell Peckett RAF KIA Le Vaudoue Communal Cemetery Coll. grave 3-4. Flying Officer Rendal Anthony Fenwick Scrivener RAF pilot KIA Le Vaudoue Communal Cemetery Joint grave 1. Sergeant Frederick Charles Searle RAF KIA Le Vaudoue Communal Cemetery Coll. grave 3-4. Flying Officer Norman Alfred Smith RAF KIA Le Vaudoue Communal Cemetery Coll. grave 3-4.