- First Name(s):EricFielder
- Surname:THOMAS
- Service Number:117131
- Rank:
Pilot Officer
- Conflict:WW2
- Service:Air Force
- Air Force:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
- Air Force Unit:12 Squadron
- Former Units:None
- Date of Death:14th September 1942
- Age At Death:23
- Place of Death:Unknown
- Place of Burial:Commemorated on Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, England, Panel 72
- Place of Birth:Unknown
- Home Town:Unknown
- Casualty's Relatives:
Son of Frederick Robert Herbert and Ethel Thomas, of Bevere, Worcestershire
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In March 1938 Eric obtained a Meeke Scholarship in Modern History at Hertford College, Oxford. He was the navigator aboard a Wellington bomber that left Binbrook on a raid to Bremen on the night of 13th/14th September 1942. The aircraft was lost without trace and the names of the five crew appear on the Runnymede Memorial. Every speech day an award for history is still presented at the Royal Grammar School in his memory.
Source for additional information: In Dedication to a Future World by Mark Rogers, 1999.
A letter from Eric’s father, F.R.H. Thomas, Croome, 11 Grange Avenue, Bevere, Worcester, dated 28th March 1952, can be found within war records held at Worcestershire Archives requesting that his name be added to the county roll of honour. The letter states that Pilot Officer Eric Fielder Thomas, 12 Squadron, RAFVR, service no 117131 was a scholar at Worcester Royal Grammar School.
Eric Thomas has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Runnymede Memorial.
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