The story
Name: G F HICKS
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 91762
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: No.31 Secondary Flying Training School, Kingston, Ontario
Ship/station: H.M.S. Canada, Halifax / RCAF Dartmouth / RCAF Yarmouth
Date of death: 1943-07-09
Aircraft: Harvard II
Place of death: Canada
Circumstances: DIED
Buried/commemorated: KINGSTON (CATARAQUI) CEMETERY - Ontario
Commemoration details: Section G, Range 7, Grave 8
Family details: Son of Solomon John and Winifred Hicks, of Redditch, Worcestershire. Native of Stroud Gloucestershire
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 91762
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: No.31 Secondary Flying Training School, Kingston, Ontario
Ship/station: H.M.S. Canada, Halifax / RCAF Dartmouth / RCAF Yarmouth
Date of death: 1943-07-09
Aircraft: Harvard II
Place of death: Canada
Circumstances: DIED
Buried/commemorated: KINGSTON (CATARAQUI) CEMETERY - Ontario
Commemoration details: Section G, Range 7, Grave 8
Family details: Son of Solomon John and Winifred Hicks, of Redditch, Worcestershire. Native of Stroud Gloucestershire
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