102 (Ceylon) Squadron
Tentate et perficite (Attempt and Achieve)
Flight Sergeant Thomas Sayer DFM - 591744
We are just starting on Tom's page, there is so, so much to add here that it is going to take a while.... This was the crew that Tom normally piloted.
F/S Tom Sayer - DFM - Pilot
F/S Hugh Billbrough - Nav - DFC (2nd tour)
F/S Brendon "Cotton" Reele - WOp
F/S James Kid - F/E - (did 2nd tour)
F/S Leslie J Jones - A/G
F/S Joseph Muldoon - DFM - A/G
F/S Leonard Hancock - B/A - DFC (2nd tour)
Back row: Leslie Jones - Tom Sayer - Joseph Muldoon - Leonard Hancock.
Front row: Brendon "Cotton" Reele - James (Jim) Kid - Hugh Billbrough.
We have lots more photo's of Tom that will be adding in the coming weeks and months.
I have ORB's showing raids and when I can get to see Tom again I have permission to scan all of his amazing log book.
For now though, a piece in his local paper and then a photo of him with his parents at Buckingham Palace collecting his DFM.
On the 10th Dec 1943 Tom was awarded the DFM, the London Gazette reads;
591744, Flight Sergeant Thomas SAYER, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, No. 102 Squadron.
One last photo, which you will note has written on the top of it, 'Restricted'.
Tom is the man stood under the letter S of restricted, we are trying to find out who some of the other people are. This will be mid 1943 at Pocklington.
Dont forget to hit the photo and then press the square sign in the bottom right hand corner to make the photo go very large.
