The story
Name: J H SHEARS
Rank: Lieutenant
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 806 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Formidable
Date of death: 1941-04-20
Aircraft: Fulmar N 1985
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 1, Panel 7
Family details: Son of Albert Ernest and Margaret Shears of Pikeshill, Lyndhurst, Hampshire
Rank: Lieutenant
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 806 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Formidable
Date of death: 1941-04-20
Aircraft: Fulmar N 1985
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 1, Panel 7
Family details: Son of Albert Ernest and Margaret Shears of Pikeshill, Lyndhurst, Hampshire
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