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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, TRINITY COLLEGE WORLD WAR 2 WAR MEMORIAL - SURNAMES T

World War 2 - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © Gill Cannell & Andrew Dishman 2009

The Cambridge University, Trinity College World War 2 memorial is in the form of an engraved stone tablet on the west wall of the College Chapel. The west wall of the Ante-Chapel, behind the statue of Newton, is dedicated to a huge memorial of Portland stone, engraved by David Kindersley in 1951 with the names of 384 Trinity men who died in the Second World War

PRO MURO ERANT NOBIS TAM IN NOCTE QUAM IN DIE
MCMXXXIX – MCMXLV

They were a wall unto us both by night and day.
1939-1945
(1 Samuel 25: 16)

TANNER Charles Graham
Lieutenant-Commander, H.M.S. President, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Died 22 September 1943. Aged 35. Son of Charles Edward and Mary Louise Tanner, of Tilford. B.A., Hons. (Cantab.): Trinity College. Buried due South of the Tower in TILFORD (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD, Surrey.
TARRANT Edward John
Lieutenant 189370, 30th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment attached to 4th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers. Died 22 November 1944. Aged 25. Son of Edward Alfred and May Tarrant, of Norwood, London. B.A. (Cantab.): Trinity College. Buried in SWARTBROEK CHURCHYARD, Limburg (Netherlands), Netherlands. Row 1. Grave 5.
TAYLOR J R N
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TAYLOR T J
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TAYLOR-YOUNG W
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TENNYSON C J
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TETLEY I B
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THARP
John David Annesley

Flying Officer (Pilot) 116059, 255 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Country of service United Kingdom. Killed in action flying out of Maison Blanche, Algeria, in a Bristol Beaufighter VIF, serial number V8649, when the aircraft was shot down by return fire when attacking a Ju88 and crashed into the sea off Sassari, Sardinia, 14 April 1943. Born 22 August 1922. Native of Chippenham, Cambridgeshire. Son of Lt.-Col. Gerard Prideaux Tharp, The Rifle Brigade, and Dora Maryan Tharp. In the 1939 Register he was born 22 August 1922, unmarried, a Student, resident "the Place" High Street, West Wratting, South Cambridgeshire R.D., Cambridgeshire. No known grave. Commemorated on Malta Memorial, Malata. Panel 6, Column 2. See also Malta Memorial and Chippenham, Cambridgeshire

Extract from Cambridge Daily News in 1945:

MISSING, NOW
BELIEVED KILLED
F/O J. D. A. Tharp, of
Chippenham Park

Flying Officer John David Anne Tharp, The only son of the late Lieut. Col. Gerard Tharp and younger son of Mrs. Tharp, of Chippenham Park who was reported missing from night operations on April 14th, 1943, off the coast of Algiers, is now believed to have been killed in action on that date.

When last heard of he was investigating an unidentified aircraft, and unofficial information that parts of both these planes were afterwards found has now been received.

John Tharp, who was 20, would have succeeded to the Chippenham estates on coming of age. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he left the University on reaching the age of 18 to volunteer for the R.A.F. He became a nightfighter pilot and, after a year of active service against enemy bombers in England, was posted to the B.N.A.F., and at the time of his death was attached to Coastal Command for special duties. When missing he was on convoy patrol with P.O. David King as radio operator. In the words of his Commanding Officer “together they made the most efficient crew in the Squadron.”

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1946:

THARP John David Annesley of Chippenham Park Isle of Ely died 14 April 1943 on war service Administration London 6 July to Dora Maryan Tharp widow. Effects £4204 10s. 2d.
THICKETT A E
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THOMAS Philip Michael Hermann
Squadron Leader 72030, 423 (R.C.A.F.). Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 5 December 1943. Aged 25. Son of Arthur Hermann Thomas, M.A., LL.D., and Marie Louise Sophie Thomas; husband of Daphne Gertrude Thomas, of Hassocks, Sussex. B.A. Hons. (Cantab.), Trinity College. Buried in IRVINESTOWN CHURCH OF IRELAND CHURCHYARD, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Plot 2. Grave 36.
THOMERSON G
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THOMSON Douglas Stuart
Flight Lieutenant 47298, 28 Squadron, Royal Air Force formerly of 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. Died 20 March 1944. Aged 27. Son of Victor and Isabella Stark Thomson, of Much Hadham, Hertfordshire. M.A. (Cantab.) Trinity College. No known grave. Commemorated on SINGAPORE MEMORIAL, Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore. Column 432.

28 Squadron was abased in Asia during the Second World War. It flew the Westland Lysander from September 1941 and from December 1942 the Hawker Hurricane fighter-bomber. By 1943 the squadron was operating in Burma until July 1945 when it started to re-equip with the Supermarine Spitfire
THORPE F B
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TIGHE B K F
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TOMKIN P R
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TREHERNE J E O
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TUFNELL H J
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TURNBULL M J L
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TURNER F
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TYLER J H E
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A-Z of names on the Cambridge Guildhall World War 1 memorial Cambridge University Trinity College - Surnames starting with A Surnames starting with B Surnames starting with C Surnames starting with D Surnames starting with E Surnames starting with F Surnames starting with G Surnames starting with H Surnames starting with I Surnames starting with J Surnames starting with K Surnames starting with L Surnames starting with M Surnames starting with N Surnames starting with O Surnames starting with P Surnames starting with Q Surnames starting with R Surnames starting with S Surnames starting with T Surnames starting with U Surnames starting with V Surnames starting with W Surnames starting with X Surnames starting with Y Surnames starting with Z

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