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Name: G H SHEPHERD
Rank: Acting Petty Officer Airman
Official number: C/JX 137829
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 759 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Raven, Eastleigh
Date of death: 1940-01-05
Place of death: Fordingbridge
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: SHEFFIELD (SHIREGREEN) CEMETERY - Yorkshire
Commemoration details: Section E, (Gen), Grave 4854
Family details: Son of Nellie Shepherd, of Pitsmoor, Sheffield, Yorkshire
Rank: Acting Petty Officer Airman
Official number: C/JX 137829
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 759 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Raven, Eastleigh
Date of death: 1940-01-05
Place of death: Fordingbridge
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: SHEFFIELD (SHIREGREEN) CEMETERY - Yorkshire
Commemoration details: Section E, (Gen), Grave 4854
Family details: Son of Nellie Shepherd, of Pitsmoor, Sheffield, Yorkshire
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