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Name: H S DIGGENS
Rank: Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: 806 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Lanka
Date of death: 1942-04-05
Aircraft: Fulmar
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: COLOMBO (KANATTE) GENERAL CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Plot 6B, Row M, Grave 5
Family details: Son of Frank Sydney and Ivy Winifred Diggens, of Goring-by-Sea, Sussex
Rank: Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: 806 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Lanka
Date of death: 1942-04-05
Aircraft: Fulmar
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: COLOMBO (KANATTE) GENERAL CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Plot 6B, Row M, Grave 5
Family details: Son of Frank Sydney and Ivy Winifred Diggens, of Goring-by-Sea, Sussex
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