The story
Name: G CURWEN
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 79481 (P/JX 182456)
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 832 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1941-07-29
Aircraft: Albacore N 4260
Place of death: At sea, West of Kintyre, Scotland
Circumstances: MISSING
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 2, Panel 1
Family details: Son of Margaret Curwen of Glasgow
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 79481 (P/JX 182456)
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 832 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1941-07-29
Aircraft: Albacore N 4260
Place of death: At sea, West of Kintyre, Scotland
Circumstances: MISSING
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 2, Panel 1
Family details: Son of Margaret Curwen of Glasgow
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