Thomas Valentine Henderson
Attended High Oakham School and worked at the Mechanics Institute as a librarian.
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Only son of Thomas and Ethel Mary Henderson.
Thomas was killed in the WW1. He was Sergeant (Piper) Thomas Henderson of the Gordon Highlanders and was killed on 14th December 1917.
In 1921 the family were boarding at Mechanics Institute, Queen Street, Mansfield and in 1939 Ethel and Tom's sister Ethel Nora (15/6/1911) where living at 62 Ravensdale Rad, Mansfield. Ethel Nora worked in the shoe trade.
IBCC: Handley Page Hampden B1, serial No P2121.
Pilot
Left Waddington on 17/9/40 going to Antwerp and crashed west of Burcht, Antwerp.
In his will he left £127 11s 1d to his widowed mother, living at 62 Ravensdale Road, Mansfield.
Buried at Schoonselhof Cemetery, Belguim plot 11. A. 8.
Mansfield Chronicle Advertiser: 27/9/1944: Pilot Missing.
Sgt T. V. Henderson of 62 Ravensdale Road, Mansfield, son of Mrs E M Henderson, formerly librarian at the local Mechanics Institute. attended High Oakham School and joined the RAF as an apprentice at the age of 17. Three years of his training was spent in India. He returned to England at the end of 1937
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