James Foulsham

James Foulsham was a Squadron Leader, service number 37347. CWGC records his death on 20 July 1944, aged 29, and his burial at Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery in a collective grave. The London Gazette records his DFC posthumously, and IBCC Digital Archive material also identifies him with the AFC and No. 109 Squadron.

The IBCC Digital Archive contains an Air Ministry letter to Foulsham’s father stating that Squadron Leader James Foulsham, AFC, service number 37347, had been reported missing from air operations on 20 July 1944 and later confirmed killed from German information via the International Red Cross. The Dieppe cemetery records identify him as Squadron Leader, pilot, Royal Air Force, service number 37347, and give his family as son of James Pearson Foulsham and Agnes Ellen Foulsham and husband of Stella Marion Foulsham. France-Crashes and Roll of Honour also connect him to the Dieppe burial. These records tie the same name to the same service number, award trail and casualty date, reducing the risk of confusing him with another airman of similar name.