The story
Name: J PYKE
Rank: Ordinary Seaman
Official number: P/JX 626309
Role: -
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 807 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Hunter
Date of death: 1944-08-20
Aircraft: Seafire Ilc MB 314
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Panel 84, Column 1
Family details: Son of Harold John Douglas Pyke and Florence Hannah Pyke, of Walsall, Staffiordshire
Rank: Ordinary Seaman
Official number: P/JX 626309
Role: -
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 807 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Hunter
Date of death: 1944-08-20
Aircraft: Seafire Ilc MB 314
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Panel 84, Column 1
Family details: Son of Harold John Douglas Pyke and Florence Hannah Pyke, of Walsall, Staffiordshire
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