Jack Findlay THOMAS

Jack Findlay THOMAS Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

Service Numbers:	NX57460, 411563
Enlisted:	15 July 1940
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 9 Squadron (RAF)
Born:	Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia , 15 October 1916
Home Town:	Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland
Schooling:	Toowoomba Grammar School
Occupation:	Overseer/ Jackeroo / Welders assistant
Died:	Flying Battle, Germany, 31 January 1943, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Sage War Cemetery, Sage, Oldenburg, Germany 10 D 11 Inscription: HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Toowoomba Grammar School WW2 Honour Board, Toowoomba Roll of Honour WW2, Toowoomba WW2 Roll of Honour Book, Toowoomba War Memorial (Mothers' Memorial)

15 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX57460
23 May 1941:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX57460
24 May 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 411563, No. 9 Squadron (RAAF)
31 Jan 1943:	Involvement Flight Sergeant, 411563, No. 9 Squadron (RAF), Killed in Action - Flying Battle over Germany.

Help us honour Jack Findlay Thomas's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Jack Findlay THOMAS was born in Toowoomba in Queensland on 15th October, 1916

His parents were Philip Lewis THOMAS & Annie Hodge FINDLAY

He served in both the Army and the RAAF and died in a Flying Battle in Germany on 31st January, 1943

-----------

His father Philip Lewis THOMAS (SN 2171) served during WW1 in the 42nd Infantry Battalion and died of wounds on 20th June, 1917