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Name: R T BISMAN
Rank: Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNZNVR
Squadron: 889 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Atheling
Date of death: 1944-06-29
Aircraft: Seafire IIc MB 253
Place of death: Indian Ocean
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: NEW ZEALAND NAVAL MEMORIAL, DEVONPORT, AUCKLAND
Commemoration details: Panel 8
Family details: Son of James Thomas and Ivy Lillian Bisman (nee Anderson), of New Brighton, Canterbury. Native of Invercargill, New Zealand
Rank: Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNZNVR
Squadron: 889 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Atheling
Date of death: 1944-06-29
Aircraft: Seafire IIc MB 253
Place of death: Indian Ocean
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: NEW ZEALAND NAVAL MEMORIAL, DEVONPORT, AUCKLAND
Commemoration details: Panel 8
Family details: Son of James Thomas and Ivy Lillian Bisman (nee Anderson), of New Brighton, Canterbury. Native of Invercargill, New Zealand
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