Julie Famelton has provided the following:
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Thomas Edison Brewer, RAF, Second Lieutenant, 55th Squadron
Thomas Brewer was a School Masters' son from Fontburn, they had moved to the area from County Durham, early in the war when the current Master joined up, his father was originally from Cornwall.
Thomas died on 12th June 1918 and was buried in Charmes Military Cemetery alongside Lieutenant Max Greville Jones, MC (formerly 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers), and his observer 2Lt Thomas Ellison Brewer, of No 55 Sqn RAF. They were flying in De Havilland 4 A7650 when they were killed in action on 12 June 1918. The airmen had taken off from Azelot aerodrome on a height test, when they were involved in combat with a German two-seater over Cheneurières, during which they were shot down and killed.
No 55 Squadron was a day bomber unit of the 41st Wing, RAF, the nucleus of the Independent Force - the RAF's strategic bombing arm.
Thomas Edison Brewer is remembered in Fontburn on F48.02 and in Netherwitton on N6.03
