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Name: W C HOOSON
Rank: Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNZNVR
Squadron: 888 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1942-01-02
Aircraft: Martlet II AM995
Place of death: Near Winchester
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery, Hampshire
Commemoration details: New Ground, Plot G, Row 9, Grave 22
Family details: Son of William Leslie and Florence Augusta Hooson, of Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand.
Rank: Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNZNVR
Squadron: 888 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1942-01-02
Aircraft: Martlet II AM995
Place of death: Near Winchester
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery, Hampshire
Commemoration details: New Ground, Plot G, Row 9, Grave 22
Family details: Son of William Leslie and Florence Augusta Hooson, of Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand.
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