Mickleham War Memorials - Lieutenant Peter Kenneth Lynch Odhams RN

4 Feb 09: Michael Angold writes: My grandparents Ernest and Louise Lynch Odhams lived at The Glen - the name has now been changed, but I can't remember what to, the name of a tree, I think - in the years immediately before and during the Second World War. They had five children - Joan, Bernard, Peter, Rosemary, and David. Mickleham was their parish church, so it was natural that at the beginning of the war both Joan and Rosemary were married in the Church.

It was equally natural that when Peter was killed at the end of 1940 he would be buried in the churchyard.

He was in the Fleet Air Arm and his plane crashed somewhere in the north of Scotland. His daughter Jacqueline is still alive.

After the war my grandparents gave up The Glen because it was too large. However, when my grandfather was in his final illness, they came back to live with my mother, who still lived at Mickleham.

Peter Odhams: via Michael Angold

CWGC record: http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2435033

Name: ODHAMS, PETER KENNETH LYNCH
Initials: P K L
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant
Regiment/Service: Royal Navy
Age: 25
Date of Death: 15/12/1940
Additional information: Son of Ernest Lynch Odhams and Frances Odhams; husband of Jeronime Frances Odhams, of Orford, Suffolk.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: N.E. Corner.
Cemetery: MICKLEHAM (ST. MICHAEL) CHURCHYARD

British and Other Navies in World War 2 Day-by-Day by Don Kindell in NAVAL EVENTS, DECEMBER 1940, Part 2 of 2: Sunday 15th - Tuesday 31st states that in a flying accident north of Kirriemuir, a Fairey Swordfish of No.767 Squadron crashed killing Sub Lt (A) BC Pocock RNVR, Lt PKL Odhams and Leading Airman HV Jones.