Photo: James Pasby
T. Snowball
Flight Engineer
Royal Air Force
4th June 1944 age 32
Greater love
Hath no man than this
Sgt. Snowball was serving with 635 Squadron. He was a crew member of Lancaster III ND841 F2-D which took off from Downham Market on a mission to Calais to mark a coastal defence battery. On take-off the Lancaster swerved and hit a hangar and exploded. All seven crew members died.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1944; W.R. Chorley; 1997; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 91 1
He is remembered at Monkwearmouth in M46.02 page 107
