The story
Name: R M WHITEHEAD
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 80543
Role: Observer under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: -
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus (Lost in S.S. Almeda Star)
Date of death: 1941-01-17
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 2, Panel 3
Family details: Native of Bangor, Caernarvonshire, Wales
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 80543
Role: Observer under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: -
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus (Lost in S.S. Almeda Star)
Date of death: 1941-01-17
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 2, Panel 3
Family details: Native of Bangor, Caernarvonshire, Wales
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You have arrived at just one small part of Back to Normandy — a personal project dedicated to preserving stories, images, music and memories of the Second World War.
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