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Name: A W B DRAYSON
Rank: Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 815 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Grebe, Dekheila, Egypt
Date of death: 1941-04-13
Aircraft: Swordfish K 5988
Place of death: Crete
Circumstances: DIED
Buried/commemorated: SUDA BAY WAR CEMETERY - Crete
Commemoration details: Plot 10, Row E, Grave 19
Family details: Son of Walter Francis Drayson and of Dorothy Dyott Drayson (nee Burnaby)
Rank: Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 815 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Grebe, Dekheila, Egypt
Date of death: 1941-04-13
Aircraft: Swordfish K 5988
Place of death: Crete
Circumstances: DIED
Buried/commemorated: SUDA BAY WAR CEMETERY - Crete
Commemoration details: Plot 10, Row E, Grave 19
Family details: Son of Walter Francis Drayson and of Dorothy Dyott Drayson (nee Burnaby)
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