Ronald Henry Claxton

A Sergeant with the Royal Air Force, Ronald died on 12th of May 1940 aged 24. 

Ronald was born at Lowestoft on 4 June 1915, a son of Thomas and Jessie Claxton. He was baptised at Saint Margaret’s Church on 22 June 1915 and his family lived at 17 Avondale Road and this was still their home in 1921. By 1939 they were living at 42 Rotterdam Road.  

Ronald was a Pilot with 55 Squadron. He was flying a Blenheim I aircraft, L8386, on a night exercise training flight when the aircraft flew into high ground sixty miles east of Ismailia, Egypt. There was one survivor. 

CREDIT:Malcolm Barrass