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Name: B H PRANCE
Rank: Temp Acting Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: No.9 (Pilots) A.F.U. Course, RAF Errol - 834 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Jackdaw, Crail
Date of death: 1943-03-19
Aircraft: Swordfish DK 781
Place of death: River Tay, Perthshire, Scotland
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: MURIE CEMETERY - Perthshire, Scotland
Commemoration details: Section B, Grave 366
Family details: Son of Henry Aylett Prance and Cissie Elizabeth Prance; husband of Maude Evelyn Prance, of Colney Hatch, Middlesex
Rank: Temp Acting Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: No.9 (Pilots) A.F.U. Course, RAF Errol - 834 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Jackdaw, Crail
Date of death: 1943-03-19
Aircraft: Swordfish DK 781
Place of death: River Tay, Perthshire, Scotland
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: MURIE CEMETERY - Perthshire, Scotland
Commemoration details: Section B, Grave 366
Family details: Son of Henry Aylett Prance and Cissie Elizabeth Prance; husband of Maude Evelyn Prance, of Colney Hatch, Middlesex
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