The story
Name: D L STURCH
Rank: Air Fitter (O)
Official number: FX 78779
Role: -
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: -
Ship/station: H.M.S. Lanka (Lost in S.S. Eumaeus)
Date of death: 1941-01-14
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 2, Panel 4
Family details: Son of Frank Thomas and Harriet Sturch of Nechells, Birmingham, Warwickshire
Rank: Air Fitter (O)
Official number: FX 78779
Role: -
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: -
Ship/station: H.M.S. Lanka (Lost in S.S. Eumaeus)
Date of death: 1941-01-14
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 2, Panel 4
Family details: Son of Frank Thomas and Harriet Sturch of Nechells, Birmingham, Warwickshire
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You have arrived at just one small part of Back to Normandy — a personal project dedicated to preserving stories, images, music and memories of the Second World War.
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