Thomas Melville PETHICK
Flying
Officer
J/10279
Pilot
430 (RCAF) Squadron
Royal Canadian Air Force
who
died on
Wednesday 02 June 1943. Age 21
Additional information
Son of L. M. Pethick and D. Gertrude Pethick, of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada.
Cemetery
AIREL CHURCHYARD, Manche, France.
Location Information
Airel is a village 12 kilometres north of the town of Saint-Lô.
There is 1 Commonwealth burial of the 1939-1945 war here, 16 metres south-east
of the south-eastern corner of the church.
No. of Identified Casualties
1
Circumstances
In Fighter Command Losses of Second World War by Norman L R FRANKS, Midland Publishing, is written:
2nd June
1943,
F/O T M Pethick, 430 (RCAF) Squadron, Mustang I AM200,
Rhubarb (*) pm. Shot down by flak over Airel.
(*) Rhubarb: Small scale freelance fighter sorties against ground targets
of opportunity.
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