Birth Date: 1920-June-13
Born:
Home: Long Branch, Ontario
Enlistment:
Enlistment Date: Unknown
Service
RCAF
Unit
82 (MP) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
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Base
RAF Malta
Rank
Sergeant
Position
Sergeant
Service Numbers
R/69517
Long Branch, Ontario
Aircraft believed shot down by an enemy aircraft off the coast of Libya while attacking shipping near Tripoli, and crashed near Cyrenaica, Libya.
Killed:Sergeant Richard George Glasby Fairweather RAF KIA Tripoli War Cemetery, Libya, Joint grave 11. F 26-27.Sergeant Allan Theophilus Thomas RAF KIA Tripoli War Cemetery grave 11. G. 2.
The Bristol Blenheim is a British light bomber aircraft designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company (Bristol) which was used extensively in the first two years and in some cases throughout the Second World War. The aircraft was developed as Type 142, a civil airliner, in response to a challenge from Lord Rothermere to produce the fastest commercial aircraft in Europe. The Type 142 first flew in April 1935, and the Air Ministry, impressed by its performance, ordered a modified design as the Type 142M for the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a bomber. Deliveries of the newly named Blenheim to RAF squadrons commenced on 10 March 1937. Wikipedia
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