The story
Name: W B SUMMERS
Rank: Leading Airman
Official number: FX 78450
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 2
Family details: Son of William Beasley Summers and Kate Summers of Sheldon, Warwickshire. Native of Birmingham. Warwickshire
Rank: Leading Airman
Official number: FX 78450
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 2
Family details: Son of William Beasley Summers and Kate Summers of Sheldon, Warwickshire. Native of Birmingham. Warwickshire
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