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Name: C P GURNHILL
Rank: Temp Acting Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: 1849 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Saker, Washington / Halifax / Lewiston / Brunswick, Maine / Squantum / New York, USA
Date of death: 1944-09-11
Aircraft: Corsair
Place of death: USA
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL CEMETERY - New Hampshire
Commemoration details: Lot 171
Family details: Son of The Revd Christopher James Gurnhill B.A. and Mary Evelyn Gurnhill, of Farcet Vicarage, Huntingdonshire
Rank: Temp Acting Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: 1849 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Saker, Washington / Halifax / Lewiston / Brunswick, Maine / Squantum / New York, USA
Date of death: 1944-09-11
Aircraft: Corsair
Place of death: USA
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: PORTSMOUTH NAVAL CEMETERY - New Hampshire
Commemoration details: Lot 171
Family details: Son of The Revd Christopher James Gurnhill B.A. and Mary Evelyn Gurnhill, of Farcet Vicarage, Huntingdonshire
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