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Name: D R BENTLEY
Rank: Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: 777 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Spurwing, Hastings, Sierra Leone
Date of death: 1943-06-09
Aircraft: Swordfish DK 743
Place of death: RNAS Hastings
Circumstances: D.O.I.
Buried/commemorated: FREETOWN (KING TOM) CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Plot 8, Row A, Grave 3
Family details: Son of Robert Henry and Erna Margaret Bentley, of North Harrow, London
Rank: Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: 777 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Spurwing, Hastings, Sierra Leone
Date of death: 1943-06-09
Aircraft: Swordfish DK 743
Place of death: RNAS Hastings
Circumstances: D.O.I.
Buried/commemorated: FREETOWN (KING TOM) CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Plot 8, Row A, Grave 3
Family details: Son of Robert Henry and Erna Margaret Bentley, of North Harrow, London
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