Casualty of WWII, Thomas was a Flight Officer with 12th Replacement Control Depot. USAAC.Service No.T-190798.
Thomas Hurley Morgan was born in St Helens, Oregon on 28th February, 1920. Thomas Hurley Morgan was born in St Helens, Oregon on 28th February, 1920. His father died when Tommy was just two years old, so his mother Susan “Tudie” Hurley Morgan returned home to Lillooet, British Columbia.
Thomas Morgan, originally a RCAF member had just transferred to the USAAF at the time of his death.
At age twenty one Tommy was instructed to report to the RCAF Training School, Brandon, Manitoba on the 15th April, 1941. After only sixty hours training he, with other recruits, was flying 600h.p. fighter-type planes. He then graduated from 10 Flight Training School, Dauphin, Manitoba, receiving his wings two weeks ahead of schedule.
Tommy was a Sergeant when he joined, for reasons unknown, the USAAF and eventually came to fly Lancasters with 100 Squadron, the senior British Night Bombing Squadron. At the end of May /early June1943 Tommy was promoted to Flying Officer.
Around the time of his 27th mission over Germany he received the DFC and his Flight Engineer, Sgt Jim Giles, the DFM for an exploit over Germany, the details of which are not known at this time.
On the 4th October, 1943 Tommy volunteered to flight test ED583 and took off, a pilot of Morgan’s experience (Total 745 hours including 46 hours day and 175 hours 1205. The weather was cloudy but the conditions were considered satisfactory for a flight on Lancaster's). ED583 suffered severe structural failure and the resulting crash was reported at 1250 hrs by the ROC.
He entered the service from Canada, but was born in the U.S.A., not in Canada.
He was killed when his Lancaster ED583 from RAF Waltham (Grimsby) broke up in the air over North Thoresby while on a test flight, with the loss of all of the crew.
Information is from http://www.lancastered627.shaunmcguire.co.uk/ed583.htm
"On 4th October 1943 the crew of Lancaster ED583 boarded their aircraft at RAF Waltham (Grimsby) for a test flight of the aircraft to check out the starboard outer engine and to gain as much height as possible under the conditions.
They took off from RAF Waltham at 12.05hrs and at about 12.50hrs it is reported that witnesses saw the aircraft in pieces falling through the clouds and the main airframe falling onto the village of North Thoresby. Parts of the aircraft were scattered for a distance of seven miles.
The crew consisted of three pilots, a navigator, two flight engineers and four members of another new crew.
Eight of the ten crew members were:
Flt/Officer T-190798 Thomas Morgan, USAAC. The pilot & captain of the aircraft.
[Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial,Cambridgeshire, England]
Flt Sgt John Thomas Goozee, , co-pilot
[Islington Cemetery & Crematorium, London]
Sgt Ralph Frederick Worsey, pilot
[Woolwich Cemetery, London]
Sgt Walter Edward Giles,, Flight Engineer
[Rose Hill Cemetery, Oxford, Oxfordshire]
Sgt Charles Alexander Green,, Flight Engineer
[Hull Eastern Cemetery, Kingston-upon-Hull]
Sgt John Alexander Baker, Navigator
[Lambeth Tooting Cemetery, London]
Sgt William Frederick Bristow, , WO/Ag
[Camberwell New Cemetery, London]
and
Sgt John Hill Rogers, , WO/Ag
[Holy Ascension Churchyard, Upton, Cheshire]
It appears that the aircraft broke up in mid air and witnesses described seeing bits and pieces of the aircraft falling through the clouds with the main fuselage falling onto the village destroying the Methodist church and the cottages each side by the fire that followed.
Three crew members bodies were found in the wreckage, the other crew members being flung out of the aircraft when it broke up in the air. One body in an American uniform (Thomas Morgan) was found on the main Grimsby to Louth Road at North Thoresby."
Thomas Hurley Morgan was born in St Helens, Oregon on 28th February, 1920. Thomas Hurley Morgan was born in St Helens, Oregon on 28th February, 1920. His father died when Tommy was just two years old, so his mother Susan “Tudie” Hurley Morgan returned home to Lillooet, British Columbia.
Thomas Morgan, originally a RCAF member had just transferred to the USAAF at the time of his death.
At age twenty one Tommy was instructed to report to the RCAF Training School, Brandon, Manitoba on the 15th April, 1941. After only sixty hours training he, with other recruits, was flying 600h.p. fighter-type planes. He then graduated from 10 Flight Training School, Dauphin, Manitoba, receiving his wings two weeks ahead of schedule.
Tommy was a Sergeant when he joined, for reasons unknown, the USAAF and eventually came to fly Lancasters with 100 Squadron, the senior British Night Bombing Squadron. At the end of May /early June1943 Tommy was promoted to Flying Officer.
Around the time of his 27th mission over Germany he received the DFC and his Flight Engineer, Sgt Jim Giles, the DFM for an exploit over Germany, the details of which are not known at this time.
On the 4th October, 1943 Tommy volunteered to flight test ED583 and took off, a pilot of Morgan’s experience (Total 745 hours including 46 hours day and 175 hours 1205. The weather was cloudy but the conditions were considered satisfactory for a flight on Lancaster's). ED583 suffered severe structural failure and the resulting crash was reported at 1250 hrs by the ROC.
He entered the service from Canada, but was born in the U.S.A., not in Canada.
He was killed when his Lancaster ED583 from RAF Waltham (Grimsby) broke up in the air over North Thoresby while on a test flight, with the loss of all of the crew.
Information is from http://www.lancastered627.shaunmcguire.co.uk/ed583.htm
"On 4th October 1943 the crew of Lancaster ED583 boarded their aircraft at RAF Waltham (Grimsby) for a test flight of the aircraft to check out the starboard outer engine and to gain as much height as possible under the conditions.
They took off from RAF Waltham at 12.05hrs and at about 12.50hrs it is reported that witnesses saw the aircraft in pieces falling through the clouds and the main airframe falling onto the village of North Thoresby. Parts of the aircraft were scattered for a distance of seven miles.
The crew consisted of three pilots, a navigator, two flight engineers and four members of another new crew.
Eight of the ten crew members were:
Flt/Officer T-190798 Thomas Morgan, USAAC. The pilot & captain of the aircraft.
[Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial,Cambridgeshire, England]
Flt Sgt John Thomas Goozee, , co-pilot
[Islington Cemetery & Crematorium, London]
Sgt Ralph Frederick Worsey, pilot
[Woolwich Cemetery, London]
Sgt Walter Edward Giles,, Flight Engineer
[Rose Hill Cemetery, Oxford, Oxfordshire]
Sgt Charles Alexander Green,, Flight Engineer
[Hull Eastern Cemetery, Kingston-upon-Hull]
Sgt John Alexander Baker, Navigator
[Lambeth Tooting Cemetery, London]
Sgt William Frederick Bristow, , WO/Ag
[Camberwell New Cemetery, London]
and
Sgt John Hill Rogers, , WO/Ag
[Holy Ascension Churchyard, Upton, Cheshire]
It appears that the aircraft broke up in mid air and witnesses described seeing bits and pieces of the aircraft falling through the clouds with the main fuselage falling onto the village destroying the Methodist church and the cottages each side by the fire that followed.
Three crew members bodies were found in the wreckage, the other crew members being flung out of the aircraft when it broke up in the air. One body in an American uniform (Thomas Morgan) was found on the main Grimsby to Louth Road at North Thoresby."
Casualty of WWII, Thomas was a Flight Officer with 12th Replacement Control Depot. USAAC.Service No.T-190798.
Thomas Hurley Morgan was born in St Helens, Oregon on 28th February, 1920. Thomas Hurley Morgan was born in St Helens, Oregon on 28th February, 1920. His father died when Tommy was just two years old, so his mother Susan “Tudie” Hurley Morgan returned home to Lillooet, British Columbia.
Thomas Morgan, originally a RCAF member had just transferred to the USAAF at the time of his death.
At age twenty one Tommy was instructed to report to the RCAF Training School, Brandon, Manitoba on the 15th April, 1941. After only sixty hours training he, with other recruits, was flying 600h.p. fighter-type planes. He then graduated from 10 Flight Training School, Dauphin, Manitoba, receiving his wings two weeks ahead of schedule.
Tommy was a Sergeant when he joined, for reasons unknown, the USAAF and eventually came to fly Lancasters with 100 Squadron, the senior British Night Bombing Squadron. At the end of May /early June1943 Tommy was promoted to Flying Officer.
Around the time of his 27th mission over Germany he received the DFC and his Flight Engineer, Sgt Jim Giles, the DFM for an exploit over Germany, the details of which are not known at this time.
On the 4th October, 1943 Tommy volunteered to flight test ED583 and took off, a pilot of Morgan’s experience (Total 745 hours including 46 hours day and 175 hours 1205. The weather was cloudy but the conditions were considered satisfactory for a flight on Lancaster's). ED583 suffered severe structural failure and the resulting crash was reported at 1250 hrs by the ROC.
He entered the service from Canada, but was born in the U.S.A., not in Canada.
He was killed when his Lancaster ED583 from RAF Waltham (Grimsby) broke up in the air over North Thoresby while on a test flight, with the loss of all of the crew.
Information is from http://www.lancastered627.shaunmcguire.co.uk/ed583.htm
"On 4th October 1943 the crew of Lancaster ED583 boarded their aircraft at RAF Waltham (Grimsby) for a test flight of the aircraft to check out the starboard outer engine and to gain as much height as possible under the conditions.
They took off from RAF Waltham at 12.05hrs and at about 12.50hrs it is reported that witnesses saw the aircraft in pieces falling through the clouds and the main airframe falling onto the village of North Thoresby. Parts of the aircraft were scattered for a distance of seven miles.
The crew consisted of three pilots, a navigator, two flight engineers and four members of another new crew.
Eight of the ten crew members were:
Flt/Officer T-190798 Thomas Morgan, USAAC. The pilot & captain of the aircraft.
[Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial,Cambridgeshire, England]
Flt Sgt John Thomas Goozee, , co-pilot
[Islington Cemetery & Crematorium, London]
Sgt Ralph Frederick Worsey, pilot
[Woolwich Cemetery, London]
Sgt Walter Edward Giles,, Flight Engineer
[Rose Hill Cemetery, Oxford, Oxfordshire]
Sgt Charles Alexander Green,, Flight Engineer
[Hull Eastern Cemetery, Kingston-upon-Hull]
Sgt John Alexander Baker, Navigator
[Lambeth Tooting Cemetery, London]
Sgt William Frederick Bristow, , WO/Ag
[Camberwell New Cemetery, London]
and
Sgt John Hill Rogers, , WO/Ag
[Holy Ascension Churchyard, Upton, Cheshire]
It appears that the aircraft broke up in mid air and witnesses described seeing bits and pieces of the aircraft falling through the clouds with the main fuselage falling onto the village destroying the Methodist church and the cottages each side by the fire that followed.
Three crew members bodies were found in the wreckage, the other crew members being flung out of the aircraft when it broke up in the air. One body in an American uniform (Thomas Morgan) was found on the main Grimsby to Louth Road at North Thoresby."
Thomas Hurley Morgan was born in St Helens, Oregon on 28th February, 1920. Thomas Hurley Morgan was born in St Helens, Oregon on 28th February, 1920. His father died when Tommy was just two years old, so his mother Susan “Tudie” Hurley Morgan returned home to Lillooet, British Columbia.
Thomas Morgan, originally a RCAF member had just transferred to the USAAF at the time of his death.
At age twenty one Tommy was instructed to report to the RCAF Training School, Brandon, Manitoba on the 15th April, 1941. After only sixty hours training he, with other recruits, was flying 600h.p. fighter-type planes. He then graduated from 10 Flight Training School, Dauphin, Manitoba, receiving his wings two weeks ahead of schedule.
Tommy was a Sergeant when he joined, for reasons unknown, the USAAF and eventually came to fly Lancasters with 100 Squadron, the senior British Night Bombing Squadron. At the end of May /early June1943 Tommy was promoted to Flying Officer.
Around the time of his 27th mission over Germany he received the DFC and his Flight Engineer, Sgt Jim Giles, the DFM for an exploit over Germany, the details of which are not known at this time.
On the 4th October, 1943 Tommy volunteered to flight test ED583 and took off, a pilot of Morgan’s experience (Total 745 hours including 46 hours day and 175 hours 1205. The weather was cloudy but the conditions were considered satisfactory for a flight on Lancaster's). ED583 suffered severe structural failure and the resulting crash was reported at 1250 hrs by the ROC.
He entered the service from Canada, but was born in the U.S.A., not in Canada.
He was killed when his Lancaster ED583 from RAF Waltham (Grimsby) broke up in the air over North Thoresby while on a test flight, with the loss of all of the crew.
Information is from http://www.lancastered627.shaunmcguire.co.uk/ed583.htm
"On 4th October 1943 the crew of Lancaster ED583 boarded their aircraft at RAF Waltham (Grimsby) for a test flight of the aircraft to check out the starboard outer engine and to gain as much height as possible under the conditions.
They took off from RAF Waltham at 12.05hrs and at about 12.50hrs it is reported that witnesses saw the aircraft in pieces falling through the clouds and the main airframe falling onto the village of North Thoresby. Parts of the aircraft were scattered for a distance of seven miles.
The crew consisted of three pilots, a navigator, two flight engineers and four members of another new crew.
Eight of the ten crew members were:
Flt/Officer T-190798 Thomas Morgan, USAAC. The pilot & captain of the aircraft.
[Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial,Cambridgeshire, England]
Flt Sgt John Thomas Goozee, , co-pilot
[Islington Cemetery & Crematorium, London]
Sgt Ralph Frederick Worsey, pilot
[Woolwich Cemetery, London]
Sgt Walter Edward Giles,, Flight Engineer
[Rose Hill Cemetery, Oxford, Oxfordshire]
Sgt Charles Alexander Green,, Flight Engineer
[Hull Eastern Cemetery, Kingston-upon-Hull]
Sgt John Alexander Baker, Navigator
[Lambeth Tooting Cemetery, London]
Sgt William Frederick Bristow, , WO/Ag
[Camberwell New Cemetery, London]
and
Sgt John Hill Rogers, , WO/Ag
[Holy Ascension Churchyard, Upton, Cheshire]
It appears that the aircraft broke up in mid air and witnesses described seeing bits and pieces of the aircraft falling through the clouds with the main fuselage falling onto the village destroying the Methodist church and the cottages each side by the fire that followed.
Three crew members bodies were found in the wreckage, the other crew members being flung out of the aircraft when it broke up in the air. One body in an American uniform (Thomas Morgan) was found on the main Grimsby to Louth Road at North Thoresby."
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