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Name: G W SWEETING
Rank: Temp Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: 784 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Merlin, Donibristle
Date of death: 1944-08-16
Aircraft: Fulmar
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: Dirleton Cemetery - East Lothian, Scotland
Commemoration details: Section E, Grave 1043
Family details: Son of Henry Ravenhill Sweeting and Louise Eleanor Sweeting; husband of Phyllis Lilian Rose Sweeting, of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Rank: Temp Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: 784 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Merlin, Donibristle
Date of death: 1944-08-16
Aircraft: Fulmar
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: Dirleton Cemetery - East Lothian, Scotland
Commemoration details: Section E, Grave 1043
Family details: Son of Henry Ravenhill Sweeting and Louise Eleanor Sweeting; husband of Phyllis Lilian Rose Sweeting, of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
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