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Richard Michael Collete Thomas

 Richard Michael Collete Thomas

Person details

Forename(s) Richard Michael Collete
Surname Thomas
Rank Lieutenant Colonel commanding
Regiment Wiltshire Regiment
Age 30
Death Killed in action
Place of Death Western Europe > France > Normandy
Date of Death 05/08/1944
Year of Entry 1926
House Letter B
School Notes -
Comments Radley register gives him as a Major in the Army Air Corps (ie, Parachute Regiment); CWGC gives Lt.Col. commanding 5th Wiltshire.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link https://www.cwgc.org/find-record...
Unit 5th Battalion
Prefect House Prefect
Military Decorations -
Album Number 23
Battle Mont Pincon [Operation Bluecoat]
Previous Regiment Parachute Regiment
Burial or Cemetery France > St. Manvieu, Normandy
Citations
Archives Correspondence file in OR files in Radley Archives
Post School Sandhurst
Prep School
Prisoner of War
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.
Service Number 53765
Place of Birth