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Name: T J DAWSON
Rank: Acting Leading Airman (TY)
Official number: FAA/JX 243176
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 821 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. St Angelo
Date of death: 1943-01-11
Aircraft: Albacore
Place of death: At sea, South of Cape Granitola
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 4, Panel 3
Family details: Son of James and Miriam Dawson; husband of Eileen May Dawson. Native of Swindon, Wiltshire
Rank: Acting Leading Airman (TY)
Official number: FAA/JX 243176
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 821 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. St Angelo
Date of death: 1943-01-11
Aircraft: Albacore
Place of death: At sea, South of Cape Granitola
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 4, Panel 3
Family details: Son of James and Miriam Dawson; husband of Eileen May Dawson. Native of Swindon, Wiltshire
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