TOMKINSON Christopher Charles

  • First Name(s):
    Christopher 
    Charles 
  • Surname:
    TOMKINSON
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Lieutenant Commander

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Navy
  • Naval Service:
    Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
  • Ship:
    HMS Victorious
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    26th March 1945
  • Age At Death:
    28
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Lee-on-Solent Memorial, Bay 6. Panel 2.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Major H. Tomkinson and E. Phyllis Tomkinson, of Astley, Worcestershire. Magdalen College, Oxford; B.A. (Hons. Mod. Hist.)

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

TOMKINSON Christopher Charles Is Named On These Memorials

Astley St Peter’s Church
Astley War Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Astley St Peter’s Church with the additional information: D.S.C. Lieut. Commander ‘A’. R.N.V.R. HMS “Victorious” Squadron 1836. Sakishima Sands, Pacific. 26th March 1945
Astley War Memorial with the additional information: D.S.C. Lieut. Commander R.N.V.R.

Further Information About TOMKINSON Christopher Charles

HMS Victorious was an aircraft carrier built by Victors-Armstrong and launched on 14th September 1939 by Lady Inskip, wife of a defence minister.  On 26th March 1945 she was deployed with other aircraft carriers to take part in Operation Iceberg I to neutralise airfields in the Sakashima Gunto Group. Christopher Tomkinson was posted missing, presumed killed sometime during air operations on 26th March.

Source for additional information:
http://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-04CV-Victorious.htm

A letter from Reverend P.G. Young, Astley, Stourport dated 10th May 1950 can be found within war records held at Worcestershire Archives requesting that Lieutenant Commander Christopher Charles Tomkinson, D.S.C, ‘A’ Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Victorious Squadron 1836 be added to the county roll of honour.

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