The story
Name: C B IRVING
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 78453
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: No.7 Service Flying Training School
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1940-08-17
Place of death: Near Spalding, Lincolnshire
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: NORTHWOOD CEMETERY - Middlesex
Commemoration details: Section H, Grave 166
Family details: Son of Norman and Jane Martin Macdonald Irving, of Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey. His brother Desmond also died on service
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 78453
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: No.7 Service Flying Training School
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1940-08-17
Place of death: Near Spalding, Lincolnshire
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: NORTHWOOD CEMETERY - Middlesex
Commemoration details: Section H, Grave 166
Family details: Son of Norman and Jane Martin Macdonald Irving, of Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey. His brother Desmond also died on service
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