The story
Name: G R D TAIT
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 81968
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: No.24 Elementary Flying Training School
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1940-12-10
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: St Albans
Circumstances: DIED
Buried/commemorated: ST ALBANS CEMETERY - Hertfordshire
Commemoration details: Section L, Row D, Grave 27
Family details: Son of Charles Henry and Beatrice Payne Tait, of Newton, Glamorgan, Wales. Native of Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 81968
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: No.24 Elementary Flying Training School
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1940-12-10
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: St Albans
Circumstances: DIED
Buried/commemorated: ST ALBANS CEMETERY - Hertfordshire
Commemoration details: Section L, Row D, Grave 27
Family details: Son of Charles Henry and Beatrice Payne Tait, of Newton, Glamorgan, Wales. Native of Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales
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