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Name Thomas Gray No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1163 Awards VC
Regiment Royal Air Force, No. 12 Squadron
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Urchfont, near Devizes, Wiltshire, England
Place Of Death Maastricht region, Holland
Buried/Location Ashes Heverlee War Cemetery, near Leuven, Belgium, Vlaams-Brabant
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Collective Grave, Plot VI, Row F, Grave 14 - 16
Gazetted 11 June 1940
VC Presented 21 June 1941 by King George VI at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his parents Ernest Arthur and Susannah Mary Gray
Memorials
P Headstone, Heverlee War Cemetery, near Leuven, Belgium, Vlaams-Brabant
P Named on War Memorial, Royal Victoria Park, Bath, Somerset
Named on Roll of Honour, Cardinal Vaughan Grammer School, Holland Park, West London
P Stained Glass Panel, St Georges Church, RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire
P Memorial Stone at site of action, Veldwezelt Bridge, West of Maastricht, Belgium
P Memorial Plaque by tree, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Named in the Halton Boys Memorial Garden, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Named on RAF VC Memorial at St Clement Dane's Church, Aldwych, London
P Featured in a VC display at the Royal British Legion, Endless Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire
P Gray Close, Canford, Bournmouth, Dorset
P Gray Court, Whitkirk, Leeds
P Gray Close, Innsworth, Glocester, Gloucestershire
P Gray Drive, Swanton Morley, Norfolk
P Named on Bomber Command Memorial, Lincoln, Lincolnshire
By The Way…
He was originally buried secretly near crash site by local citizens and then re-interred by Allies in 1945 at Lanaken Cemetery, 20 miles north of Liege
VC Held By
Unknown
BORN 17 May 1914
DIED 12 May 1940 AGE 24
VC Won 12 May 1940 AGE 24
Place VC Won Over Albert Canal, Belgium
War/Campaign Second World War
