(Well, here I go again. This is the third time I've attempted to initiate this thread.)

I've been trying to track down information on Pilot Officer Thomas Reginald Ashton RAFVR for some time. He was a crew member on the 408 Squadron Hampden bomber piloted by my uncle, Robert Wishart of Hamilton Ontario on the night of July 21/22, 1942 when they were lost over Holland on a bombing mission to Duisburg. The bodies of three of the crew were recovered, my uncle and one other being buried in Harlingen and T.R. Ashton being buried in Bergen-op-Zoom.

My uncle and two of the others were RCAF and so I've been able to learn at least something about each of them but T.R. Ashton is a complete mystery. I've found no photographs, date or place of birth nor any mention of any relatives.

The following are links to pages where he is mentioned:

http://www.lostbombers.co.uk/bomber.php?id=9964

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35292/pages/5663/page.pdf

http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RAFVR_officers_A01.html

http://twgpp.org/information.php?id=2025870

If anyone has any information or could point me in any likely directions I would greatly appreciate it.

Bob Mackenzie