Lieutenant Thomas D Ambler

Lieutenant Thomas Denison Ambler was the son of Thomas Ingle Ambler and Constance Margaret Ambler, and the husband of Margaret Priscilla Ambler, of Coventry. He served with 8th (Midlands) Parachute Battalion. He was jump trained at RAF Ringway on Course 58. This course ran between 29 March and 11 April 1943. 

On 13 June 1943, members of 8th Para Bn were on training Exercise Bluebell, and jumped at 15:55 hours over the Firth of Tay in Scotland. The Battalion's war diary records that eight men from this jump landed in the river. Another man, RSM Parsons landed on a sand bank was able to get ashore with help and reported to the police. Initially, no trace of the others was found and they were presumed drowned. This included Thomas.

Lieutenant Ambler drowned in this training accident aged 22 years old. He has no known grave and is now commemorated on the Memorial at Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey.