The story
Name: G E LOCKE
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FAA/JX 234649
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 779 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Cormorant
Date of death: 1942-10-27
Aircraft: Fulmar
Place of death: Gibraltar
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 3, Panel 2
Family details: Son of Ernest Joseph and Ellen Locke of Ramsgate
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FAA/JX 234649
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 779 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Cormorant
Date of death: 1942-10-27
Aircraft: Fulmar
Place of death: Gibraltar
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 3, Panel 2
Family details: Son of Ernest Joseph and Ellen Locke of Ramsgate
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