The story
Name: T F RIDDLER
Rank: Petty Officer Airman
Official number: FX 76494
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 803 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Ark Royal
Date of death: 1940-07-03
Aircraft: Skua
Place of death: At sea, off Oran
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 1, Panel 3
Family details: Son of Frank and Annie Riddler; husband of Gertrude Riddler of Launceston, Cornwall
Rank: Petty Officer Airman
Official number: FX 76494
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 803 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Ark Royal
Date of death: 1940-07-03
Aircraft: Skua
Place of death: At sea, off Oran
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 1, Panel 3
Family details: Son of Frank and Annie Riddler; husband of Gertrude Riddler of Launceston, Cornwall
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