Individual Details

Lt Tomos Mansel "Twm" STEPHENS

(31 May 1920 - 3 Jul 1944)

Events

Birth31 May 1920Finsbury Park, London
Residence19 Jun 1921with his widowewd maternal grandmother - 87, Lady Margaret Road, Islington, London
Death3 Jul 1944killed in action on war service - Foret de Verrieres, Le Verrieres, Vienne, France
Probate12 Apr 1945Llandudno
BurialVerrieres Communal Cemetery, Poitiers, France
Militarywith the 1st Special Air Service Regiment A.A.C. (& 24th Regiment, South Wales Boarderers)
Miscellaneousis commemorated on a memorial plaque - the churchyard, Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire

Families

FatherThomas Brown STEPHENS (1876 - 1949)
MotherMargaretta Cesiah REES (1883 - 1966)
SiblingJoan Mair STEPHENS (1918 - 1995)
SiblingPeter Harries STEPHENS (1922 - 2018)

Notes

Probate

Probate was granted to his father Thomas Brown Stephens, general draper. His effects were valued at £5678 (£147,344.10 in 2005).

Military

Service No: 95606 - Tomos took part in Operation Bulbasket it was an operation by 'B' Squadron, 1st Special Air Service (SAS), behind the German lines in German occupied France, between June and August 1944. The operation was located to the east of Poitiers in the Vienne department of south west France; its objective was to block the Paris to Bordeaux railway line near Poitiers and to hamper German reinforcements heading towards the Normandy beachheads, especially the 2nd SS Panzer Division – Das Reich. The Germans captured Tomos (who had a gunshot wound to his leg) and a German officer beat him to death by using the butt of Tomos' own rifle.