Tom Speedy White
Memorial: Olveston
Regiment: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Medals: 1939–45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, War Medal 1939–1945
Rank and number: Sergeant
Parents: Major John and Nan J. White
Home address: Olveston Vicarage
Date of birth: 1922
Date of death: 28/09/1942
Buried/Commemorated at: No known burial site but commemorated on Runnymede Memorial Surrey and Olveston Memorial
Age: 20
Further information:
William lodged with the Reverend Barker and his family at Olveston Vicarage before joining the RAF in 1940. He competed his pilot training in 1941 in the USA and was promoted to sergeant then posted to Number 7 operational training unit at Limavady, Northern Ireland. On the day of his death William was on a routine night training exercise in Wellington, HX 448 with a Canadian crew of 5 others, heading for Rockall. When they were overdue at their destination by an hour, they were reported as missing, which was later changed to presumed dead. It is possible that the plane crashed on the Isle of Soay, Inner Hebrides.
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/
The War Memorial Book for the Parishes of Olveston & Aust South Gloucestershire compiled by William Morgan