Sergeant Thomas Reid ALSTON (1938)

21 Squadron, RAF Volunteer Reserve
Born 10 June 1920 in Lambeth, London
Killed in action 31 March 1941, aged 20
Commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Englefield Green, Surrey.

Thomas Alston was the son of Archibald McD Alston and Nellie M, née Stephenson, of Bordon, Surrey.

He was educated at Farnham Grammar School; he left Merton to join up during Hilary Term 1940.

He was the navigator in a Bristol Blenheim Mk IV, Serial Number R3884, that was shot down by a Kriegsmarine Vorpostenboot (a German Navy flakship) off the Dutch Island of Texel, on 31 March 1941 whilst on patrol over the North Sea.