I Thomas MCCANN BEM

I Thomas McCANN, (B.E.M.) Aircraftman 1st Class, 619213, 40 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Son of Thomas and Anna Marie McCann, nee Dornan of Lisburn, Co.Down, Northern Ireland. Died 24th November 1941 aged 23.

At rest in grave 8 plot, P, Capuccini Naval Cemetery, Malta.

London Gazette dated 21 January 1941 (BEM Citation)

567944 Corporal Joseph Graham Michael JAVIS and 619213 Aircraftman 1st Class Thomas McCANN. During September, 1940, these airmen approached a burning aircraft and succeeded in detaching Vickers guns and magazines of ammunition and removing them to a place of safety. Both displayed conspicuous gallantry in disregarding imminent personal danger from exploding ammunition and the likelihood that the petrol tanks might explode.