The story
Name: M M BEACHCROFT
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 90853
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: 1943-02-02
Aircraft: Harvard
Place of death: Ontario, Canada
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: KINGSTON (CATARAQUI) CEMETERY - Ontario
Commemoration details: Section G, Range 7, Grave 4
Family details: Son of Major Maurice Beachcroft O.B.E. and Mrs Beachcroft, of Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, England
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 90853
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: 1943-02-02
Aircraft: Harvard
Place of death: Ontario, Canada
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: KINGSTON (CATARAQUI) CEMETERY - Ontario
Commemoration details: Section G, Range 7, Grave 4
Family details: Son of Major Maurice Beachcroft O.B.E. and Mrs Beachcroft, of Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, England
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