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Cpl. Thomas Arthur Wilson
Royal Air Force
from:Penrith
My father-in-law, Thomas Arthur Wilson, was born in Sunderland on 29th December 1915. He moved to Penrith around 1936 to take employment as a postman, where he indulged his hobbies of fell walking, mountaineering and cycling.
He joined the RAF in 1941 as a driver, and in December 1941 he was posted to RAF Habbaniya in Iraq. At some point during his time there he was promoted to Corporal. In Sept 1944 he returned to Britain to RAF Binbrook. There he met WAAF Marjorie Croft, a bomb-loader, and they were married in Grimsby in 1945 shortly before he was demobbed. He returned to Penrith where he resumed his employment as a postman and later Postal Inspector. He died in 1962