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Name: W LAWTON
Rank: Temp Acting Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: U.S. Navy
Ship/station: H.M.S. Saker, Washington / Halifax / Lewiston / Brunswick, Maine / Squantum / New York, USA
Date of death: 1943-09-25
Aircraft: Harvard -
Place of death: Florida, USA
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: PENSACOLA (BARRANCAS) NATIONAL CEMETERY - Florida
Commemoration details: Post Section 23, Grave 1997
Family details: Son of William and Mary Rebecca Lawton, of Bentley, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England
Rank: Temp Acting Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: U.S. Navy
Ship/station: H.M.S. Saker, Washington / Halifax / Lewiston / Brunswick, Maine / Squantum / New York, USA
Date of death: 1943-09-25
Aircraft: Harvard -
Place of death: Florida, USA
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: PENSACOLA (BARRANCAS) NATIONAL CEMETERY - Florida
Commemoration details: Post Section 23, Grave 1997
Family details: Son of William and Mary Rebecca Lawton, of Bentley, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England
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