The story
Name: B A PATTERSON
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: 2825 (RNZN)
Role: Observer under training
Service/attached: RNZN
Squadron: 767 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Condor, Arbroath
Date of death: 1942-05-13
Aircraft: Swordfish l L 2838
Place of death: Finavon, Forfar, Scotland
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: ARBROATH WESTERN CEMETERY, Angus, Scotland
Commemoration details: Compartment D, North Border, Grave 43
Family details: Son of John Samuel Patterson and of Irene Alice Patterson (nee Smart), of Woodville, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: 2825 (RNZN)
Role: Observer under training
Service/attached: RNZN
Squadron: 767 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Condor, Arbroath
Date of death: 1942-05-13
Aircraft: Swordfish l L 2838
Place of death: Finavon, Forfar, Scotland
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: ARBROATH WESTERN CEMETERY, Angus, Scotland
Commemoration details: Compartment D, North Border, Grave 43
Family details: Son of John Samuel Patterson and of Irene Alice Patterson (nee Smart), of Woodville, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
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