1253671 Sergeant Herbert Roy Tuff.
The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
14 Operational Training Unit
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner.
Aged 30.
Son of Herbert Charles Tuff and Beatrice Alice Tuff (née Bruin), of Worthing. They were married in Greenwich, in 1903.
His birth was registered at Lewisham, Kent, in the quarter ended June 1911.
His death was registered in Melton Mobray district, Leicestershire.
14 Operational Training Unit was based at RAF Cottesmore from 1940. Being a Training School, it had secondary runways for emergency use at Saltby and Twyford.
The trainee crew of the Handley Page HP 52 Bomber P4303 comprised,
Flight Sergeant Donald Harry Bartlett, aged 20,
Pilot
Sergeant Arthur Percy Overall, aged 24,
Pilot
Sergeant Herbert Roy Tuff, aged 30,
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Sergeant Jack Edward Wall, aged 19
Pilot
Sergeant Thomas Ian Arthur West, aged 23
Pilot
It is likely, given his rank, that Flight Sergeant Donald Bartlett was in charge of the flight.
His name is also commemorated on a War Memorial plaque in
Lewisham United Reformed Church,
Lewisham High Street,
Lewisham,
Kent.
1253671 Sergeant Herbert Roy Tuff.
The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
14 Operational Training Unit
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner.
Aged 30.
Son of Herbert Charles Tuff and Beatrice Alice Tuff (née Bruin), of Worthing. They were married in Greenwich, in 1903.
His birth was registered at Lewisham, Kent, in the quarter ended June 1911.
His death was registered in Melton Mobray district, Leicestershire.
14 Operational Training Unit was based at RAF Cottesmore from 1940. Being a Training School, it had secondary runways for emergency use at Saltby and Twyford.
The trainee crew of the Handley Page HP 52 Bomber P4303 comprised,
Flight Sergeant Donald Harry Bartlett, aged 20,
Pilot
Sergeant Arthur Percy Overall, aged 24,
Pilot
Sergeant Herbert Roy Tuff, aged 30,
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner
Sergeant Jack Edward Wall, aged 19
Pilot
Sergeant Thomas Ian Arthur West, aged 23
Pilot
It is likely, given his rank, that Flight Sergeant Donald Bartlett was in charge of the flight.
His name is also commemorated on a War Memorial plaque in
Lewisham United Reformed Church,
Lewisham High Street,
Lewisham,
Kent.
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Records on Ancestry
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Web: UK and Allied Countries, Index of International Bomber Command Losses, 1936-1966
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UK, World War II Index to Allied Airmen Roll of Honour, 1939-1945
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England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995
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England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
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