The story
Name: R A LAWSON
Rank: Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNZVR
Squadron: 880 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Indomitable
Date of death: 1943-06-15
Aircraft: Seafire Iic MB255
Place of death: At sea, West of Orkney
Circumstances: D.O.I.
Buried/commemorated: NEW ZEALAND NAVAL MEMORIAL, DEVONPORT, AUCKLAND, North Shore City
Commemoration details: Panel 9
Family details: Son of Thomas Roy and Hilda Nellie Lawson, of Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand
Rank: Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNZVR
Squadron: 880 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Indomitable
Date of death: 1943-06-15
Aircraft: Seafire Iic MB255
Place of death: At sea, West of Orkney
Circumstances: D.O.I.
Buried/commemorated: NEW ZEALAND NAVAL MEMORIAL, DEVONPORT, AUCKLAND, North Shore City
Commemoration details: Panel 9
Family details: Son of Thomas Roy and Hilda Nellie Lawson, of Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand
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