LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Charles Francis Lionel TULLOCH
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 39403 (RAF)
Born: Mosman NSW, 3 January 1916
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 220 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 220 Squadron Hudson I aircraft N7289), Skaggerrak, 15 April 1940, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Charles and Blanche F N Tulloch, of Bournemouth, Hampshire
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 6, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Hudson N7289 took off 1245 hours and set course for a search on Track U. The aircraft was shot down at 15:50 hrs into the western Skaggerrak by Unteroffizier Helmut Enerlein in a Me110C-1 from 3./ZGl.
The crew members of N7289 were:
Aircraftman Class I George Edwin Ridgway (611142) (RAF)
Aircraftman Class II Eric Brougham Summerfield (615808) (RAF) Aged 18 Years
Flying Officer Henry Outram Thwaite (39399) (RAF)
Flying Officer Charles Francis Lionel Tulloch (39403) (RAF) (Pilot)
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
McNeill R (Ross), Royal Air Force Coastal Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 1 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1939-1941, Midland Publishing UK, 2003