The story
Name: E G CULLEY
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 78421
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: PETERBOROUGH (EASTFIELD) CEMETERY - Northamptonshire
Commemoration details: Division 4, Block 4, Joint grave 1702
Family details: Son of Edward Culley and of Annie Beatrice Culley (nee Smith), of Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 78421
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: PETERBOROUGH (EASTFIELD) CEMETERY - Northamptonshire
Commemoration details: Division 4, Block 4, Joint grave 1702
Family details: Son of Edward Culley and of Annie Beatrice Culley (nee Smith), of Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
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