The story
Name: G D ASKEW
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 88780
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: No.31 Secondary Flying Training School, Kingston, Ontario
Ship/station: H.M.S. Saker, Washington / Halifax / Lewiston / Brunswick, Maine / Squantum / New York, USA
Date of death: 1942-06-16
Aircraft: Harvard -
Place of death: Lake Ontario, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada
Circumstances: DIED
Buried/commemorated: KINGSTON (CATARAQUI) CEMETERY - Ontario
Commemoration details: Section G, Range 7, Grave 1
Family details: Son of Major H R Askew and Mrs Askew, of Bordon, Hampshire, England
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 88780
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: No.31 Secondary Flying Training School, Kingston, Ontario
Ship/station: H.M.S. Saker, Washington / Halifax / Lewiston / Brunswick, Maine / Squantum / New York, USA
Date of death: 1942-06-16
Aircraft: Harvard -
Place of death: Lake Ontario, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada
Circumstances: DIED
Buried/commemorated: KINGSTON (CATARAQUI) CEMETERY - Ontario
Commemoration details: Section G, Range 7, Grave 1
Family details: Son of Major H R Askew and Mrs Askew, of Bordon, Hampshire, England
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