Notes
The All About Thornton website (see References) states: ‘Thomas Edward Mackrill, son of James and Ada Mackrill of 8 Close Head, Thornton; husband of Marie Mackrill, (née Capstick), of Oakroyd House, Otley Road, Charlestown, Baildon, Yorkshire. Known as Tommy Mackrill. He worked at the new School Green Co-op prior to the War. Sergeant, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 462 (R.A.A.F.) Sqdn, #944296. Died 9 February, 1943, aged 24. Commemorated at the Alamein Memorial, , Egypt, column 271. He is also remembered on Baildon War Memorial.
Sgt Thomas Mackrill was in a Halifax DT 495 which took off from Solluch No 1, (Libya) for a raid on Palermo Harbour on the night 8/9th February 1943, but the aircraft failed to return. The other members of the crew of the Halifax were Sgt Humphrey Ralph Green, from Anglesey, Sgt Henry Nicholson Balmforth, from Yorkshire, Sgt William Sutherland Murray, from Glasgow, Sgt Michael Denis McHale, from London, Sgt Donald McCardle, from Lancashire, and Sgt George Henry Hale of Willesden, Middlesex.'