The story
Name: R BOAKES
Rank: Acting Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Observer
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: 816 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Tracker
Date of death: 1943-08-26
Aircraft: Swordfish DK 683
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 4, Panel 7
Family details: Son of Sidney James and Alice Hall Boakes; husband of Phyllis Gertrude Boakes of Wheatley, Doncaster
Rank: Acting Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Observer
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: 816 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Tracker
Date of death: 1943-08-26
Aircraft: Swordfish DK 683
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 4, Panel 7
Family details: Son of Sidney James and Alice Hall Boakes; husband of Phyllis Gertrude Boakes of Wheatley, Doncaster
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