The story
Name: R I BREINGAN
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: NZ D/3186
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RNZN
Squadron: No.31 Secondary Flying Training School, Kingston, Ontario
Ship/station: H.M.S. Canada, Halifax / RCAF Dartmouth / RCAF Yarmouth
Date of death: 1942-10-11
Aircraft: Harvard
Place of death: Canada
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: KINGSTON (CATARAQUI) CEMETERY, Ontario
Commemoration details: Section G, Range 7, Grave 2
Family details: Son of R. Breingan and Charlotte Yates Breingan, of Port Alaviri, Napier, New Zealand.
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: NZ D/3186
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RNZN
Squadron: No.31 Secondary Flying Training School, Kingston, Ontario
Ship/station: H.M.S. Canada, Halifax / RCAF Dartmouth / RCAF Yarmouth
Date of death: 1942-10-11
Aircraft: Harvard
Place of death: Canada
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: KINGSTON (CATARAQUI) CEMETERY, Ontario
Commemoration details: Section G, Range 7, Grave 2
Family details: Son of R. Breingan and Charlotte Yates Breingan, of Port Alaviri, Napier, New Zealand.
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