The story
Name: W H HILL
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 55056
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 700 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Devonshire
Date of death: 1940-05-18
Aircraft: Walrus P 5647
Place of death: Off Namsos, Norway
Circumstances: D.O.W.
Buried/commemorated: TROMSO CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Plot NN, Row E, Grave 8
Family details: Son of Thomas Bickley Hill and Sarah Elizabeth HILL, of Shrewsbury, Shropshire; husband of Grace Lorraine Hill, of Shrewsbury
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 55056
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 700 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Devonshire
Date of death: 1940-05-18
Aircraft: Walrus P 5647
Place of death: Off Namsos, Norway
Circumstances: D.O.W.
Buried/commemorated: TROMSO CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Plot NN, Row E, Grave 8
Family details: Son of Thomas Bickley Hill and Sarah Elizabeth HILL, of Shrewsbury, Shropshire; husband of Grace Lorraine Hill, of Shrewsbury
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