LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Thomas William Sheridan ADDISON
Service No: 404571
Born: Mackay QLD, 21 May 1912
Enlisted in the RAAF: 11 October 1940
Unit: No. 50 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Swinderby
Died: Air Operations: (No. 50 Squadron Lancaster aircraft R5746), France, 12 August 1942, Aged 30 Years
Buried: Ste-Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, France
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William Sheridan Addison and Adria Scougall Addison, of Charleville, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Charleville QLD
Remembered: Panel 118, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 0213 hours on the morning of 12 August 1942 Lancaster R5746 took off from Swinderby detailed to bomb Le Havre, France. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed in the target area and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of R5746 were:
Flight Sergeant Thomas William Sheridan Addison (404571) (Navigator)
Sergeant Joel Bogard (1382214) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer David Gray (402993) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant John Manley Lowe (R/86751) (RCAF) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Geoffrey Browning McCloy (403199) (Second Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant William Paul Taylor (1211090) (RAFVR) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant Alexander Ashcroft Waldie (1101233) (RAFVR) (First Wireless Air Gunner)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/85/80