Victor Tucker

Pilot Officer Victor Emmanuel Tucker was a Jamaican airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born on 22 December 1916, at Linstead, St. Catherine, the son of Adrian Maxamillian and Lydia Agatha Tucker (née Harrison). "Jamaica, Civil Birth Registration", familysearch.org. Tucker settled in Britain, becoming a barrister, and, in 1939, married Wilhelmina Casimir Chrenko.
As a sergeant and pilot in 129 Squadron, Tucker claimed three BF109s destroyed (one west of St Valery on 20 September 1941, two in the vicinity of Boulogne on 21 October) and one BF109 probable, destroyed 10 miles east of Le Trouqet on 21 September.Foreman, John (2005), RAF Fighter Command Victory Claims, Volume 2, pp. 103-4.Foreman, John (2005), RAF Fighter Command Victory Claims, Volume 2, p. 114. Tucker obtained a commission on 28 April 1942 and died on 4 May, when German FW109s shot down his Supermarine Spitfire (serial BM421) over Le Havre.The London Gazette (35575), p. 2295, 26 May 1942. Retrieved 14 August 2013.Production page 027, airhistory.org.uk. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Runnymede Memorial.
==Notes==
==References==
*Tucker, Victor Emmanuel, cwgc.org. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
==External links==
*Victor Emmanuel Tucker (including photograph), caribbeanaircrew-ww2.com. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
Category:1916 births
Category:1942 deaths
Category:Jamaican military personnel
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Runnymede Memorial
Category:Pilot Officers