Flight Sergeant Tom Clegg

[mckeesie]

Hi, hope this will work: I represent a Dutch heritage foundation (WO2GO) who are trying to re-tell the story of allied airmen who died on our island during WWII.  We remember them by making information boards annex memorials at the crash and writing a few books. We already had family and relatives coming to visit us from USA, Canada and the UK to officially unveil these boards.

On June 14th 1944 a Bristol Beaufighter of Coastal Command crashed near the coast of the island where I live. One of the two crew died.
His names was Flight Sergeant Tom Clegg
Son of George J. and Kate Clegg, of Leytonstone, Essex.

Is there anyone who can help me find his family?  If so, would you please contact me? If you happen to know living relatives, please remember that RootsChat cannot be used to publish these data. If so, please send me a personal message?

Thanks and regards,
Kees

[Scrabble]

Hopefully you may have had replies by PM from someone who knows the family.

However if you are still looking I can tell you that he appears to have had two sisters
Joan M Clegg born 1923 West Ham, Essex (now East London)
Kathleen M Clegg born 14 December 1912 West Ham
Kathleen married Donald Gurr 1938 in Essex SW District and the couple had a child (I can find only one)
Stephen J Gurr born 1948 Epping, Essex
Kathleen's family with parents George and Kate appears on a couple of family trees on Ancestry.co.uk. There is no detail on Stephen who is presumably still living (I got the name from the register). If you are registered with Ancestry you may be able to contact the family through the tree owners.
Good luck with your search
Scrabble

[Treetotal]

 I am raising this post in the hope that the good hearted Rootschatters can help Kees and the Wo2go in their search for the relatives of 8 brave airmen who lost their lives when their Lancaster bomber was brought down by enemy fire. The pilot averted further death and injury to civilians on the ground by diverting the stricken plane and landing in a field.

We have found relatives for one of the crew who have visited Holland recently and met with Kees and witnessed the wonderful work that they have done to preserve the memory and resting places of these brave men.

Please give your support if you have the time.

Carol

[mckeesie]

Dear people on Rootschat, dear Carol,

Thank you very much on beforehand for trying to help our foundation in our search for relatives of the brave airmen who died on or near our island during WWII.

As a foundation we want to make sure those men are not forgotten nor why they fought and gave their lives. It's very hard for us over here in The Netherlands to find relatives after all these years. All help is welcome, so again thank you very much!

We will keep progress of the results via RootsChat and on our website www.wo2go.nl

Kind regards,
Kees