Name
Douglas Stansfield Tetlow
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
30/11/1940
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
518689
Royal Air Force
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HITCHIN CEMETERY
S.E. Extn. Grave 561.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
In November 1940 he was training on Blenheim aircraft at Bicester in Oxfordshire. His Service Number was 518689. On the 30th November he and his wife decided to go shopping using a motor-cycle combination. They were on the Oxford road near Bicester, not far from the airfield, when the combination was in collision with a military truck His wife was thrown from the sidecar and suffered from shock and bruising but Douglas was killed instantly.
He is buried in Grave 561 , Southeast Extension in Hitchin Cemetery. A visit to the Cemetery in 1999 indicated that the grave space had been reused and there was no trace of any memorial to him.
He married Miss Winifred Tomlin in 1938 and lived with her at her parents' home at 27, Old Hale Way, Hitchin until 1939.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Paul Johnson - local historian, Herts & Beds Express dated 7th December 1940
