The story
Name: G R WATSON
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 84836
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: No 1 Service Flying Training School, Netheravon
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1941-08-19
Aircraft: Hart (T) ? K 4979
Place of death: Claverton, near Bath, Somerset
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: NETHERAVON (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD - Wiltshire
Family details: Son of James and Elsie Mary Watson, of Peacehaven, Sussex. Native of Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 84836
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: No 1 Service Flying Training School, Netheravon
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1941-08-19
Aircraft: Hart (T) ? K 4979
Place of death: Claverton, near Bath, Somerset
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: NETHERAVON (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD - Wiltshire
Family details: Son of James and Elsie Mary Watson, of Peacehaven, Sussex. Native of Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
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