The story
Name: R S HANKEY
Rank: Lieutenant
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 813 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Cormorant
Date of death: 1943-02-07
Aircraft: Swordfish V 4515, code '4X'
Place of death: Bone, Algeria
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 4, Panel 3
Family details: Son of Lt-Colonel Sydney Thornhill Hankey and Helena Constance Hankey of Chelsea, London
Rank: Lieutenant
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 813 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Cormorant
Date of death: 1943-02-07
Aircraft: Swordfish V 4515, code '4X'
Place of death: Bone, Algeria
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 4, Panel 3
Family details: Son of Lt-Colonel Sydney Thornhill Hankey and Helena Constance Hankey of Chelsea, London
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