The story
Name: W T CHATFIELD
Rank: Petty Officer Airman
Official number: FX 80143 (JX 139782)
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 803 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Formidable
Date of death: 1941-05-08
Aircraft: Fulmar N 1870
Place of death: Mediterranean
Circumstances: MISSING
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 2, Panel 1
Family details: Son of Thomas and Emily Olive Chatfield of Sompting, Sussex
Rank: Petty Officer Airman
Official number: FX 80143 (JX 139782)
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 803 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Formidable
Date of death: 1941-05-08
Aircraft: Fulmar N 1870
Place of death: Mediterranean
Circumstances: MISSING
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 2, Panel 1
Family details: Son of Thomas and Emily Olive Chatfield of Sompting, Sussex
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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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