The story
Name: C A GALLAGHER
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: NZ 2517
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RNZN
Squadron: No.1 Service Flying Training School, Netheravon
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1942-02-25
Place of death: Surrey
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY, Surrey
Commemoration details: Plot 2, Row J, Grave 1
Family details: Son of James Allen Gallagher and of Alice Margaret Gallagher (nee Hallagan), of Hastings, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: NZ 2517
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RNZN
Squadron: No.1 Service Flying Training School, Netheravon
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1942-02-25
Place of death: Surrey
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY, Surrey
Commemoration details: Plot 2, Row J, Grave 1
Family details: Son of James Allen Gallagher and of Alice Margaret Gallagher (nee Hallagan), of Hastings, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
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