The story
Name: G TAPP-SMITH
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 77502
Role: -
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 819 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Illustrious
Date of death: 1941-01-10
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: Mediterranean
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 2, Panel 2
Family details: Son of Walter and Lily Tapp-Smith. Natibe of Middlesborough, Yorkshire
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 77502
Role: -
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 819 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Illustrious
Date of death: 1941-01-10
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: Mediterranean
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 2, Panel 2
Family details: Son of Walter and Lily Tapp-Smith. Natibe of Middlesborough, Yorkshire
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You have arrived at just one small part of Back to Normandy — a personal project dedicated to preserving stories, images, music and memories of the Second World War.
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