The story
Name: F WHITTINGHAM
Rank: Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 816 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Furious
Date of death: 1940-04-18
Aircraft: Swordfish P 4214, coded 'U4K'
Place of death: Kvalsund fjord, Norway
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 1, Panel 2
Family details: Son of Percival Whittingham and of Edith Whittingham (nee York); husband of Elsie Sonia Whittingham (nee Johns) of Salisbury, Wiltshire
Rank: Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 816 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Furious
Date of death: 1940-04-18
Aircraft: Swordfish P 4214, coded 'U4K'
Place of death: Kvalsund fjord, Norway
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 1, Panel 2
Family details: Son of Percival Whittingham and of Edith Whittingham (nee York); husband of Elsie Sonia Whittingham (nee Johns) of Salisbury, Wiltshire
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