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Tulip, T.E., Pt/Off., 1942

Newcastle Evening Chronicle 04/07/1942

Newcastle Evening Chronicle 04/07/1942

Newcastle Evening Chronicle 03/07/1942

In Alexandria (Hadra) War Cemetery, Egypt, is the Commonwealth War Grave of 46193 Pilot Officer Thomas Edward Tulip, serving with the Royal Air Force, who died 28/06/1942.

Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Casualty Communique No. 156, in Flight Magazine, September 24th 1942, page 350, records that he Died on Active Service.
The Old Haltonians website records that he died of a Serious Illness.
His death was reported in the Newcastle Evening Chronicle of July 4th 1942:
"Death of High Heaton pilot officer.
Mrs. H. Tulip, of 37, Bilsmoor Avenue, High Heaton, has received news that her husband, Pilot Officer Thomas Edward Tulip, R.A.F., has died in the Middle East. He was the son of Mr. T. R. Tulip, of 34, Malvern Street, Newcastle, and was married in January this year."

Thomas Edward Tulip is remembered at Annfield Plain on A38.01 and A38.09


The CWGC entry for Pilot Officer Tulip

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