The story
Name: B K FORREST
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: SFX 2240
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 828 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. St Angelo
Date of death: 1943-03-12
Aircraft: Albacore
Place of death: Mediterranean
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY - Sicily
Commemoration details: Plot I, Row K, Grave 31
Family details: Son of Thomas Matheson Forrest and Jessie Forrest, of Bedford
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: SFX 2240
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 828 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. St Angelo
Date of death: 1943-03-12
Aircraft: Albacore
Place of death: Mediterranean
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY - Sicily
Commemoration details: Plot I, Row K, Grave 31
Family details: Son of Thomas Matheson Forrest and Jessie Forrest, of Bedford
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