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Name: N E HOWE
Rank: Acting Leading Airman (TY)
Official number: D/JX 287923
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 756 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Kestrel, Worthy Down
Date of death: 1942-05-16
Aircraft: Proctor II BV 565
Place of death: Near Abbotsbury Old Coastguard Station, Weymouth, Dorset
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: PORTLAND ROYAL NAVAL CEMETERY - Dorset
Commemoration details: C of E portion, Grave 721
Family details: Son of Henry Ernest and Caroline Amelia Susannah Howe, of Wood Green, Middlesex
Rank: Acting Leading Airman (TY)
Official number: D/JX 287923
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 756 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Kestrel, Worthy Down
Date of death: 1942-05-16
Aircraft: Proctor II BV 565
Place of death: Near Abbotsbury Old Coastguard Station, Weymouth, Dorset
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: PORTLAND ROYAL NAVAL CEMETERY - Dorset
Commemoration details: C of E portion, Grave 721
Family details: Son of Henry Ernest and Caroline Amelia Susannah Howe, of Wood Green, Middlesex
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