The story
Name: A R SMITH
Rank: Sub-Lieutenant
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNR
Squadron: 889 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Grebe, Dekheila, Egypt
Date of death: 1943-01-08
Place of death: Near El Alamein, North Africa
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Plot XXII, Row H, Grave 2
Family details: Son of William Albert and Christian Arnot Smith, of Torquay, Devon; husband of Mary Patricia Cummins Smith, of Torquay, Devon
Rank: Sub-Lieutenant
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNR
Squadron: 889 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Grebe, Dekheila, Egypt
Date of death: 1943-01-08
Place of death: Near El Alamein, North Africa
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Plot XXII, Row H, Grave 2
Family details: Son of William Albert and Christian Arnot Smith, of Torquay, Devon; husband of Mary Patricia Cummins Smith, of Torquay, Devon
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