The story
Name: P J NICHOLAS
Rank: Petty Officer Airman
Official number: FX 76378
Role: Air Gunner 2nd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 700 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1942-08-20
Aircraft: Walrus
Place of death: RNAS Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: HASLAR ROYAL NAVAL CEMETERY - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Plot E, Row 61, Grave 9
Family details: Son of Edwin Aubrey and Dorothy Georgina Nicholas, of Kenilworth, Warwickshire; husband of Margaret H Nicholas, of Clapham Park, London
Rank: Petty Officer Airman
Official number: FX 76378
Role: Air Gunner 2nd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 700 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1942-08-20
Aircraft: Walrus
Place of death: RNAS Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: HASLAR ROYAL NAVAL CEMETERY - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Plot E, Row 61, Grave 9
Family details: Son of Edwin Aubrey and Dorothy Georgina Nicholas, of Kenilworth, Warwickshire; husband of Margaret H Nicholas, of Clapham Park, London
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