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Name: J P BOURKE
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 88475
Role: Observer under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 755 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Goshawk, Piarco, West Indies
Date of death: 1942-02-24
Aircraft: Shark K 8455
Place of death: Piarco, Trinidad
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: PORT OF SPAIN (ST JAMES) MILITARY CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Western Portion, Grave 46
Family details: Son of Patrick Joseph and Mary Agnes Bourke, of Pantasaph, Clwyd, Wales. His brother Peter James, also died on service
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 88475
Role: Observer under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 755 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Goshawk, Piarco, West Indies
Date of death: 1942-02-24
Aircraft: Shark K 8455
Place of death: Piarco, Trinidad
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: PORT OF SPAIN (ST JAMES) MILITARY CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Western Portion, Grave 46
Family details: Son of Patrick Joseph and Mary Agnes Bourke, of Pantasaph, Clwyd, Wales. His brother Peter James, also died on service
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