Lawrence Frederick Gough
Known as Laurie.
In 1939 lawrence was working has an omnibus conductor.
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Son of Samuel and Jane Gough of 174 Victoria Street Mansfield. Samuel died in 1925 and Jane married John Pearce in 1928. In the 1939 Register of England and Wales Lawrence is living with his mother and step-father at 171 Victoria Street, Mansfield.
Siblings: Samuel (1898), Nellie (1900), Florence (1902), John Edward (1905), Isaac Henry (1906) and Beatrice (1913).
He married Elizabeth Wright in 1941. They were living at 12 Clumber Crescent Stanton Hill at the time of Lawrence's death.
RAF Commands: Based at Dyce, near Aberdeen. 8 OTU Coastal Command. He was on a test flight in a Mosquito T mark 111 serial number HJ964 being piloted by the base's chief instructor, Wing Commander E C Le Mesurier DSO DFC when an air bottle situated in the rear fuselage exploded. The tail was blown off and the plane span into the ground at Granholme Farm close to the airfield. Both men where killed.
Mansfield Chronicle Advertiser: 21/12/1944: Roll of Honour
Gough : Treasured Memories of my dear husband AC1 Lawrence Gough (Laurie) RAF killed on active service December 23rd 1943 , loving wife Elizabeth.
Mansfield Chronicle Advertise: 20/12/1945: Roll of Honour
Gough: In loving memory of AC1 Lawrence Frederick Gough killed on active service 23rd December 1943. Always remembered by his three sisters, Nellie, Florrie and Beaty and their families.
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