Back THYAGARAJAN Sayana Puram Duraiswamy
d. 25 Aug 1944 CWGC
Service Number 177663 (1339499)
P/O 9th June 1944. (Gazette Issue 36633 published on the 28 July 1944. Page 4 of 8)
Date A/C Crew Duty Up Down Details of Sortie or Flight
05-Mar-43 P.7089 Sgt S.P.D. Thyagarajan Convoy 15:25 17:05 Patrol off St. Davids
12-Mar-43 P.6995 Sgt S.P.D. Thyagarajan Convoy 18:10 19:40 Escort Convoy “Dinner”.
13-Mar-43 P.7110 Sgt S.P.D. Thyagarajan Scramble 12:50 13:25 Scrambled over Cardiff at 25,000 feet. Recalled when they reached 18,000
13-Apr-43 P.7090 Sgt S.P.D. Thyagarajan 10 Group Circus 22 17:30 19:00 Brest/Guipavas aerodrome was successfully divebombed with 20 x 250lb bombs.
14-Apr-43 P.7094 Sgt S.P.D. Thyagarajan 10 Group Roadstead 57 15:30 17:05 Shipping was reported in the Lannil Is estuaries. By chance, landfall was made too far south and F/O Harvey inadvertently led into the area off Raie de Brest and thereby found three ships.
16-Apr-43 P.6979 Sgt S.P.D. Thyagarajan Escorted Armed Dusk Ship Recco 20:40 22:10 Dusk escorted armed recco in Channel Islands area.
18-Apr-43 P.6974 Sgt S.P.D. Thyagarajan Escorted Armed Dusk Recco 20:20 21:25 Reccod the Channel Islands area at zero feet in good visibility, but found no shipping there.
02-May-43 P.7113 Sgt S.P.D. Thyagarajan Roadstead 64 12:10 13:15 Roadstead to Channel Island area. Mistaken report of tanker at Casquets
05-May-43 P.7074 Sgt S.P.D. Thyagarajan Roadstead 17:15 19:00 Search for a minelayer reported steaming East from Brehat. Between Sept Iles and Ile de Batz. They found fishing vessels, probably misreported
06-May-43 P.7069 Sgt S.P.D. Thyagarajan Roadstead 65 17:15 18:10 Attack on tanker with 5 small escort vessels reported W.N.W. of Alderney. The Casquets were indeed found in this position.