PARROTT, Thomas Hayward
| Service Number: | 39112 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Flying Officer |
| Last Unit: | No. 77 Squadron (RAF) |
| Born: | Kellerberrin, Western Australia, Australia, 26 November 1916 |
| Home Town: | Kellerberrin, Kellerberrin, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Lord William's Grammar School |
| Occupation: | Permanent member of RAF |
| Died: | Aircraft Accident, Germany, 12 May 1940, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany 25. E. 12. |
| Memorials: | Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Flying Officer, 39112, No. 77 Squadron (RAF) |
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Son of Walter Lawrence PARROTT and Katherine Mary nee SEATON
Thomas served for a while with the Middlesex Yeomanry (part of the Royal Corps of Signals) and in June 1936 received his commission into the Royal Air Force. He trained as a pilot and was stationed with 77 Squadron at RAF Driffield in Yorkshire. In February 1940, having been promoted to Flying Officer, he was “Mentioned in Dispatches”.
On the evening of 12th May 1940 he took off in an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mark V aircraft on a bombing mission to Monchengladbach, Germany. The aircraft crashed in the target area and Thomas, age 23, was killed together with three other members of his crew, one surviving to become a prisoner of war. This was the first bomber to crash inside Germany whilst carrying out a bombing operation on a mainland target.
WA PILOT KILLED
London.
A West Australian pilot with the R.A.F. in England is reported killed. He is Flying-Officed T. H. Parrott, of Kellerberrin. Flying-Officer Parrott was previously posted as missing, but the re port, of his death is included in the 39th Air Ministry casualty list, which was issued last week.
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