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Thomas Ferguson How

In memory of:

Flight Sergeant Thomas Ferguson How

May 14, 1943

Military Service


Service Number:

R/132630

Age:

25

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

426 Sqdn.

Additional Information


Son of Dickson Drummond How and Grace Ritchie How, of West Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada.

Commemorated on Page 172 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

Plot 13. Row 6. Grave 124.

Location:

Amersfoort is a town lying 50 kilometres south-east of Amsterdam, and 22 kilometres north-east of Utrecht. The Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery is about 2.5 kilometres from the railway station, in an area known as Oud Leusden. The graves are in a special plot, well sited among trees.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Flight Sergeant Thomas Ferguson How is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Flight Sergeant Thomas Ferguson How is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Photo of THOMAS FERGUSON HOW– Artist portrait of Thomas How
  • Group Photo– Thomas How, front row, 4th from left, Air Gunners course 3, class 5, 13 May, 1942
  • Group Photo– Sightseeing in London, circa 1942
  • Memorial– Memorial to crew of Wellington HE697, crashed May 14, 1943, dedicated at Nederhorst Den Berg, Netherlands, on 13, September, 2019, by 4 generations of Thomas How's family.
  • Photo– Memorial to crew of Wellington HE697, crashed May 14, 1943, dedicated at Nederhorst Den Berg, Netherlands, on 13, September, 2019, by 4 generations of Thomas How's family.
  • Memorial– Commemorative stone for Thomas F. How at Trenton (Ont.) National Air Force Museum. JD Dunbar was training to be a fighter pilot and died in World War I. Two generations after their deaths How and Dunbar would be related by marriage (Catherine Lawrence and John Mundie.)
  • Inscription– Thomas How was a student at Appleby College.   His name is inscribed on a tablet on the Memorial School building, shown above.   The building was built as a memorial to the members of the Appleby Community killed in the Second World War.   Every Remembrance Day the school Cadet Corps parades at a service in the Chapel, built as a memorial to those members of the Appleby Community killed in the First World War, and the names on the Honour Rolls from both World Wars are read out.
  • Newspaper Clipping– From the Montreal Gazette. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
  • Photo of Thomas How
  • Photo of Thomas How

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