Lieutenant Norman Charles Wills
Royal Navy, HMS Daedalus, Fleet Air Arm 815 Squadron
Date of Birth: 21st of February 1919
Date of Death: 17th of February 1944
Buried: Commemorated on Bay 5, Panel 1, Lee-On-Solent Memorial, Hampshire.
Awarded the DSM, the 1939-45 Star and the War Medal 1939-1945
In the 1939 register, Norman Charles Wills was living at 26, Saxe Street, Teignmouth, Devon. He was a Naval Airman. Also Mary E Brock (Wills), 22nd of December 1920, a Grocery Shop Assistant, Marion K Wills, 17th of September 1925, At School, and Ronald G Wills, 26th of February 1924, a Butcher Boy.
HMS Daedalus
Royal Naval Air Station Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus) was one of the primary shore airfields of the Fleet Air Arm. First established as a seaplane base in 1917 during WW1, it later became the main training establishment and administrative centre of the Fleet Air Arm.
Situated near Lee-on-the-Solent in Hampshire, approximately four miles west of Portsmouth on the coast of the Solent. During WW2 a number of Naval Air Squadrons were posted or formed here at some point.
The 815 squadron reformed in October 1943 at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus) to operate Fairey Barracuda torpedo bombers.
The Fairey Barracuda, the Navy's new torpedo bomber. 10th of November 1943, Lee-On-Solent Fleet Air Arm Station © IWM A 20171
Lieutenant Norman Charles Wills died as a result of an air crash on the 17th of February 1944.
FAA, 815 Sqn, Daedalus, air crash GLOVER, Alfred J, Ty/Sub Lieutenant (A), RNVR, killed WILLS, Norman C, Lieutenant (A), RNVR, killed.
Lieutenant Norman Charles Wills, Royal Navy, HMS Daedalus, Fleet Air Arm 815 Squadron
