Richard Michael Collette Thomas H.M. Army (1912 - 1944)

Born 1912 in Ledbury, Herefordshire, England

Ancestors

Died 5 Aug 1944 at about age 32 in Lower Normandy, France (KIA)

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Biography

Lt.-Col Richard Thomas H.M. Army was KIA in World War II during World War II.

Lt.-Col. Richard Michael Collette Thomas (AKA Collette-Thomas) 1912-1944) was the son of Major John Cyril Collette Thomas and Jessie Maud Scott-Brown.

He attended Radley College from 1926 where he later won a Prize Cadetship to Sandhurst.

He joined the Wiltshire Regt, in 1932 serving in WW2 when he died aged 30 on the 5th of August 1944 at Normandy, France.

He was buried in the St Manview War Cemetery.Calvados, France.

Radlein Obituary

November 19 1944. Killed in action in France in August 1944, Richard Michael Collette Thomas, Major, Army Air Corps, attd. Wiltshire Regt. (Nugee's, B, 1926-30). Micky Thomas from his earliest days here was popular with everybody; always cheerful, happy and full of fun; a splendid fellow to have about the place. He was a House Prefect, in the XV, held the 3-mile record and ended with a Prize Cadetship at Sandhurst. He joined the Wiltshire Regt, in 1932. He was in India when the war started but later transferred to the Parachute Regiment in order to get into the fighting. He formed and commanded a battalion, but later in order to get still nearer the fighting he went back to his old Regiment and was killed a few days after rejoining it. Some of us will miss him terribly.

Sources

GRO Births Jun Q 1912 Ledbury 6a 787a THOMAS Richard Michael Collette - Mother's Maiden Surname: SCOTT-BROWN

Army Roll Of Honour 1939-1945

First name(s) Richard M C

Last name Thomas

Service number 53765

Rank Major

Regiment The Wiltshire Regt (Duke Of Edinburgh's)

Birth place Hereford

Residence Cornwall

Death year 1944

Death day 5

Death month 8

Theatre of war Western Europe Campaign, 1944/45

Army Roll of Honour 1939-45 database © Naval and Military Press Ltd 2010

CWGC record for Lt.-Col. Richard Michael Collette Thomas.