The story
Name: F E STAPLES
Rank: Temp Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 95653
Role: Observer under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 752 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Goshawk, Piarco, West Indies
Date of death: 1943-09-07
Aircraft: Reliant
Place of death: Piarco, Trinidad.
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: PORT OF SPAIN (ST JAMES) MILITARY CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Western Portion, Grave 73
Family details: Son of Ernest and Eileen Isabel Staples, of Blackpool, Lancashire. Native of Westcliffe on Sea, Essex
Rank: Temp Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 95653
Role: Observer under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 752 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Goshawk, Piarco, West Indies
Date of death: 1943-09-07
Aircraft: Reliant
Place of death: Piarco, Trinidad.
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: PORT OF SPAIN (ST JAMES) MILITARY CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Western Portion, Grave 73
Family details: Son of Ernest and Eileen Isabel Staples, of Blackpool, Lancashire. Native of Westcliffe on Sea, Essex
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