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247588 Sgt. Frederick Tomlinson Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Air Bomber 78 Squadron from:Scunthorpe, UK (d.13th June 1944) Freddie enlisted in the RAFVR on the 3rd of July 1940. He was trained on his General Duties and was then mustered as a Ground Gunner until the 30th of July 1942. He volunteered for Aircrew and was initially selected for Pilot service. He arrived at Canada at the beginning of January to start his Technical training, and was hospitalized for a week for an unknown reason from the 30th of January until the 6th of February 1943. He was re-mustered as an under-training Air Bomber. He was promoted to Sergeant on August 6th 1943, and arrived back in the UK on November 9th, 1943. In early January 1944 he started his Operational training at No. 10 OTU and did submarine raids in the Bay of Biscay until the 27th of May when he crewed up at the Heavy Conversion Unit and onto 41 Base with 78th Squadron. He completed 4 bombing raids in a 4 engine Halifax MkIII taking place on the nights of June 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th with his last being on the night of the 12th of June. While returning from bombing railway communications at Amiens, they were attacked by Gehrard Raht, a nightfighter ace who survived the war. They were attacked while over the English Channel and had enough time to turn inland, and crashed in a ball of fire in-between the small towns of Varengeville Sur-Mer and Longueil, Seine-Maritime. While the town was occupied by the Germans, all 7 crew members including Freddie were given a proper burial in a Longueil churchyard. All 5 graves of the crewmembers Freddie's Gravestone Tyler Proctor Add to this record.  Related Content: No. 78 Squadron Royal Air Force Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Can you help us to add to our records? Add a record to our website. The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them Did you or your relatives live through the Second World War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? Were you or your relative evacuated? Did an air raid affect your area? If so please let us know. Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice. Contact us. Celebrate your own Family History Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Secomd World War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.

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