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Name: C F RUCK KEENE
Rank: Temp Acting Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: 761 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Dipper, Henstridge
Date of death: 1943-08-03
Aircraft: Seafire
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: HENSTRIDGE (ST NICHOLAS) CHURCHYARD - Somerset
Family details: Son of Admiral William George Elmhirst Ruck Keene, MVO, JP, and of Violet Blanche Ruck Keene (nee Hoare), of Highcliffe-on-Sea, Hampshire. His brothers, Pilot Officer John Charles Lancelot Ruck Keene and Lieut Francis Ruck Keene, DSC, also died on service
Rank: Temp Acting Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: 761 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Dipper, Henstridge
Date of death: 1943-08-03
Aircraft: Seafire
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: HENSTRIDGE (ST NICHOLAS) CHURCHYARD - Somerset
Family details: Son of Admiral William George Elmhirst Ruck Keene, MVO, JP, and of Violet Blanche Ruck Keene (nee Hoare), of Highcliffe-on-Sea, Hampshire. His brothers, Pilot Officer John Charles Lancelot Ruck Keene and Lieut Francis Ruck Keene, DSC, also died on service
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