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Name: D F DILLON
Rank: Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot Passenger
Service/attached: RNZNVR
Squadron: 738 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Asbury, Quonset Point, Rhode Island, USA
Date of death: 1943-03-30
Aircraft: Harvard SNJ-4 KE 307
Place of death: West of Norwich, Connecticut, USA
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: NEWPORT (ISLAND) CEMETERY, Rhode Island
Commemoration details: Navy Section. Plots 172-177, Grave 12
Family details: Son of Henry Charles Julian and Frances Elizabeth Dillon (nee Cooper), of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Rank: Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot Passenger
Service/attached: RNZNVR
Squadron: 738 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Asbury, Quonset Point, Rhode Island, USA
Date of death: 1943-03-30
Aircraft: Harvard SNJ-4 KE 307
Place of death: West of Norwich, Connecticut, USA
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: NEWPORT (ISLAND) CEMETERY, Rhode Island
Commemoration details: Navy Section. Plots 172-177, Grave 12
Family details: Son of Henry Charles Julian and Frances Elizabeth Dillon (nee Cooper), of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
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