The story
Name: R TOMLINSON
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 113222
Role: Observer under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 750 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Goshawk, Piarco, West Indies
Date of death: 1944-09-02
Aircraft: B F
Place of death: Diego Martin, Trinidad.
Circumstances: D.O.I.
Buried/commemorated: PORT OF SPAIN (ST JAMES) MILITARY CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Western Portion, Grave 85
Family details: Son of Frank and Violet Maud Tomlinson, of Barkby Thorpe, Leicestershire
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 113222
Role: Observer under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 750 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Goshawk, Piarco, West Indies
Date of death: 1944-09-02
Aircraft: B F
Place of death: Diego Martin, Trinidad.
Circumstances: D.O.I.
Buried/commemorated: PORT OF SPAIN (ST JAMES) MILITARY CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Western Portion, Grave 85
Family details: Son of Frank and Violet Maud Tomlinson, of Barkby Thorpe, Leicestershire
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