Reginald Thomas Gosling
Memorial: Easter Compton Methodist Church
Regiment: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Medals: 1939–45 Star, War Medal 1939–1945
Rank and number: Flight Sergeant
Parents: Albert George and M. Gladys Gosling
Marital status: Married
Home address: Reginald and Wanda: Compton House Farm, Compton Greenfield
Date of birth: 1922
Date of death: 13/04/1944
Buried/Commemorated at: No known burial site but commemorated on Alamein Memorial Egypt and Easter Compton Memorial
Age: 22
Further information:
Reginald attended Redlands Hill House School Bristol and attained his swimming certificate in 1935. He married (Wanda) Isobel Allison in Canada in 1943 under special permission.
In February 1943, Bristol Beaufighters and crews of 603 squadron began convoy patrols and escort missions along the North African coast and in August sweeps over German held islands in the Aegean and off Greece began. A few months after he was married, Reginald was shot down by a Messerschmitt 109 off Cape Matapan Southern Greece and was killed along with his co-pilot, sergeant Stanley West.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/
http://aviationarchaeology.gr/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Beaufighter-losses-in-Greece-1941-19464.pdf