The story
Name: H W METCALFE
Rank: Lieutenant-Commander
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 896 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Victorious
Date of death: 1943-06-22
Aircraft: Martlet
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 4, Panel 3
Family details: Son of the Revd Humphrey Gostwyck Metcalfe and Mary Gertrude Metcalfe; husband of Rachel Mary Metcalfe of Cross-in-Hand, Sussex
Rank: Lieutenant-Commander
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 896 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Victorious
Date of death: 1943-06-22
Aircraft: Martlet
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 4, Panel 3
Family details: Son of the Revd Humphrey Gostwyck Metcalfe and Mary Gertrude Metcalfe; husband of Rachel Mary Metcalfe of Cross-in-Hand, Sussex
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