LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Thomas Halvor HOFTO
Service No: 428187
Born: Hobart TAS, 5 November 1924
Enlisted in the RAAF: 21 April 1943
Unit: No. 15 (Pilot) Advanced Flying Unit (RAF)
Died: Illness, Gloucestershire, 1 April 1945, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Bath (Haycombe) Cemetery, Somerset
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Halvor and Blanche Eva Hofto, of New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia
Roll of Honour: New Norfolk TAS
Remembered: Panel 124, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 1 April 1945 Flight Sergeant Hofto, a Pilot, died of Miliary Tuberculosis at Tetbury. He had been admitted to hospital on 26 February 1945.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/18/643