Terence Sassoon

Flight Lieutenant Terence Aubrey David ('Teddy') Sassoon was an airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born on 27 January 1913, in Singapore, the son of Sellim Raphael and Wilhelmina Sophia Sassoon (née van Vliet). Before the war, Sassoon briefly wrote for Israelight, a magazine for Singapore's Jewish community, before leaving for London.Tan, Kevin (2008), Marshall of Singapore: A Biography, pp. 57-8. In 1939, Sassoon was working as an articled clerk for a chartered accountants.Ancestry.com. 1939 England and Wales Register [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018. 
Sassoon. a pilot with 202 Squadron, died on 3 November 1942, when his Consolidated Catalina (serial EP124) was lost while it was engaged in convoy escort duties in the Western Mediterranean. The aircraft's last transmission was 'made contact with convoy'.Storr, Alan (2006), RAAF Personnel Serving on Attachment in Royal Air Force Squadrons and Support Units in World War 2 and Missing with No Known Grave, p. 485, awm.gov.au. Retrieved 4 July 2015. He had married, in 1941, to Winifred Rymer.
The nine crew have no known grave and are commemorated by the Malta Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Sassoon, Terence Aubrey David, cwgc.org. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
Category:1913 births
Category:1942 deaths
Category:Singaporean military personnel
Category:British military personnel
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Malta Memorial
Category:Flight Lieutenants