The story
Name: D B MURPHY
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: NZ 5687
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RNZN
Squadron: No.31 Secondary Flying Training School, Kingston, Ontario
Ship/station: H.M.S. Canada, Halifax / RCAF Dartmouth / RCAF Yarmouth
Date of death: 1943-09-20
Aircraft: Harvard II
Place of death: Canada
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: KINGSTON (CATARAQUI) CEMETERY, Ontario
Commemoration details: Section G, Range 7, Grave 10
Family details: Son of Jack Murphy and of Elsie Muriel Murphy (Nee Harris), of Birkenhead, Auckland, New Zealand.
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: NZ 5687
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RNZN
Squadron: No.31 Secondary Flying Training School, Kingston, Ontario
Ship/station: H.M.S. Canada, Halifax / RCAF Dartmouth / RCAF Yarmouth
Date of death: 1943-09-20
Aircraft: Harvard II
Place of death: Canada
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: KINGSTON (CATARAQUI) CEMETERY, Ontario
Commemoration details: Section G, Range 7, Grave 10
Family details: Son of Jack Murphy and of Elsie Muriel Murphy (Nee Harris), of Birkenhead, Auckland, New Zealand.
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