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Name: R C GRAPES
Rank: Petty Officer Airman (TY)
Official number: FX 87259
Role: Telegraphist Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 838 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Landrail, Machrihanish
Date of death: 1944-05-01
Aircraft: Swordfish NE 946, coded 'K'
Place of death: English Channel
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: BREST (KERFAUTRAS) CEMETERY - Finistere
Commemoration details: Plot 47, Row 5, Grave 14
Family details: Son of William Sydney Onslow Grapes and Margaret St John Grapes, of Bushey, Hertfordshire; husband of Mary Frances Grapes, of Bushey, Hertfordshire
Rank: Petty Officer Airman (TY)
Official number: FX 87259
Role: Telegraphist Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 838 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Landrail, Machrihanish
Date of death: 1944-05-01
Aircraft: Swordfish NE 946, coded 'K'
Place of death: English Channel
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: BREST (KERFAUTRAS) CEMETERY - Finistere
Commemoration details: Plot 47, Row 5, Grave 14
Family details: Son of William Sydney Onslow Grapes and Margaret St John Grapes, of Bushey, Hertfordshire; husband of Mary Frances Grapes, of Bushey, Hertfordshire
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