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Name: D W DIGGINS
Rank: Acting Petty Officer Airman (TY)
Official number: FAA/JX 297347
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 766 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Nightjar, Inskip
Date of death: 1944-05-30
Aircraft: Swordfish HS 657
Place of death: At sea, Morecambe Bay, Lancashire.
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 5, Panel 2
Family details: Son of Walter H and Annie E Diggins of South Benfleet, Essex
Rank: Acting Petty Officer Airman (TY)
Official number: FAA/JX 297347
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 766 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Nightjar, Inskip
Date of death: 1944-05-30
Aircraft: Swordfish HS 657
Place of death: At sea, Morecambe Bay, Lancashire.
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 5, Panel 2
Family details: Son of Walter H and Annie E Diggins of South Benfleet, Essex
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