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Name: D L OLDS
Rank: Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNZNVR
Squadron: No.3 Flying Instructors School, RAF, Luslsgate Bottom, Somerset
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1944-08-21
Aircraft: Master II AZ 605
Place of death: Bristol Channel
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: YEOVILTON CHURCHYARD R.N.A.S. EXTENSION, Somerset
Commemoration details: Row D. Grave 4
Family details: Son of Edwin Thomas Olds and Kathleen Daisy Olds, of Auckland City, New Zealand.
Rank: Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNZNVR
Squadron: No.3 Flying Instructors School, RAF, Luslsgate Bottom, Somerset
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1944-08-21
Aircraft: Master II AZ 605
Place of death: Bristol Channel
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: YEOVILTON CHURCHYARD R.N.A.S. EXTENSION, Somerset
Commemoration details: Row D. Grave 4
Family details: Son of Edwin Thomas Olds and Kathleen Daisy Olds, of Auckland City, New Zealand.
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