The story
Name: H G BLAKEY
Rank: Acting Leading Airman (TY)
Official number: FX 89586
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 755/756 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Kestrel, Worthy Down
Date of death: 1942-05-11
Aircraft: Proctor
Place of death: Yatton, Keynell, Chippenham, Wiltshire.
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: CHIPPENHAM CEMETERY - Wiltshire
Commemoration details: Section 1, Row G, Grave 1
Family details: Son of Gordon Wood Blakey and May Blakey, of Woodmancote, Henfield, Sussex
Rank: Acting Leading Airman (TY)
Official number: FX 89586
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 755/756 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Kestrel, Worthy Down
Date of death: 1942-05-11
Aircraft: Proctor
Place of death: Yatton, Keynell, Chippenham, Wiltshire.
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: CHIPPENHAM CEMETERY - Wiltshire
Commemoration details: Section 1, Row G, Grave 1
Family details: Son of Gordon Wood Blakey and May Blakey, of Woodmancote, Henfield, Sussex
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