G H Thirkettle
Sergeant · 
United Kingdom
- Died
- 2 January 1945
- Fate
- Killed in flying accident
Sergeant G H Thirkettle was killed in a flying accident on 2 January 1945. He is commemorated at Runnymede Memorial, United Kingdom.
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Crew & operations
Flew as Rear gunner with No. 100 Squadron.
- Lost on LL898 HW-L (Avro Lancaster) — Crashed outbound
Crew: R Warwick (Bomb aimer) · John Dubois (Flight engineer) · W S Cameron (Navigator) · Verrell Weatherley (Pilot) · P Share (Wireless operator)
Timeline
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2 January 1945
Lost in Avro Lancaster LL898
Rear gunner - 2 January 1945 Died
Burial / commemoration
- Cemetery
- Runnymede Memorial, United Kingdom
Operations on this date. 10 raids in this archive were flown on the night of 2 January 1945: Dortmund–ems Canal · Dortmund · Vohwinkel · Gravenhorst · Hanau · Railway Tunnels · Ludwigshafen · Bremen · Berlin · Nuremberg. (Cross-reference by date — not in itself confirmation this airman flew it.)