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Name: P DICKS
Rank: Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: 831 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Victorious
Date of death: 1944-08-04
Aircraft: Barracuda
Place of death: China Bay, Trincomalee, Ceylon
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: TRINCOMALEE WAR CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Plot 2, Row D, Grave 1
Family details: Son of Valentine Frank and Elsie Maud Dicks, of Stranraer, Wigtownshire; husband of Mamie Dicks, of Glenfield, Leicestershire
Rank: Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: 831 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Victorious
Date of death: 1944-08-04
Aircraft: Barracuda
Place of death: China Bay, Trincomalee, Ceylon
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: TRINCOMALEE WAR CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Plot 2, Row D, Grave 1
Family details: Son of Valentine Frank and Elsie Maud Dicks, of Stranraer, Wigtownshire; husband of Mamie Dicks, of Glenfield, Leicestershire
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