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Name: E J CHARTERS
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: D/JX 179950
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: No.1 Service Flying Training School, Netheravon
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1941-03-09
Aircraft: Battle
Place of death: Basingstoke
Circumstances: D.O.W.
Buried/commemorated: BRISTOL (ARNOS VALE) CEMETERY - Gloucestershire
Commemoration details: Plot RR, Grave 597
Family details: Son of Lieut-Commander Wilfrid Charters, R.N., and of Eleanor Blanche Charters, of Knowle, Bristol
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: D/JX 179950
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: No.1 Service Flying Training School, Netheravon
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1941-03-09
Aircraft: Battle
Place of death: Basingstoke
Circumstances: D.O.W.
Buried/commemorated: BRISTOL (ARNOS VALE) CEMETERY - Gloucestershire
Commemoration details: Plot RR, Grave 597
Family details: Son of Lieut-Commander Wilfrid Charters, R.N., and of Eleanor Blanche Charters, of Knowle, Bristol
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