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Name: R CLARKE
Rank: Temp Midshipman (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: 738 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Saker, Washington / Halifax / Lewiston / Brunswick, Maine / Squantum / New York, USA
Date of death: 1943-03-30
Aircraft: Harvard SNJ-4 KE 307
Place of death: West of Norwich, Connecticut, USA
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: NEWPORT (ISLAND) CEMETERY, Rhode Island
Commemoration details: Navy Section. Plots 172-177. Grave 13
Family details: Son of Herbert and Constance Hilda Clarke, of Lenton Sands, Nottingham
Rank: Temp Midshipman (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: 738 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Saker, Washington / Halifax / Lewiston / Brunswick, Maine / Squantum / New York, USA
Date of death: 1943-03-30
Aircraft: Harvard SNJ-4 KE 307
Place of death: West of Norwich, Connecticut, USA
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: NEWPORT (ISLAND) CEMETERY, Rhode Island
Commemoration details: Navy Section. Plots 172-177. Grave 13
Family details: Son of Herbert and Constance Hilda Clarke, of Lenton Sands, Nottingham
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