The story
Name: A H KAY
Rank: Petty Officer Airman (TY)
Official number: FX 605170
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 898 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Pursuer
Date of death: 1945-08-09
Aircraft: Hellcat
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 6, Panel 1
Family details: Son of Percy Harry and Elsie Edith Kay of Eccles, Lancashire
Rank: Petty Officer Airman (TY)
Official number: FX 605170
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 898 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Pursuer
Date of death: 1945-08-09
Aircraft: Hellcat
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 6, Panel 1
Family details: Son of Percy Harry and Elsie Edith Kay of Eccles, Lancashire
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