The story
Name: W PAXTON
Rank: Petty Officer Airman
Official number: FX 76322
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 811 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Condor, Arbroath
Date of death: 1942-06-05
Aircraft: Swordfish V 4646
Place of death: Healy Hill, near Langholm, Dumfries-shire, Scotland
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: KIRKCALDY (HAYFIELD) CEMETERY - Fifeshire, Scotland
Commemoration details: Compartment G, Grave 67
Family details: Son of Robert and Helen Paxton; husband of Margaret Paxton, of Kirkcaldy
Rank: Petty Officer Airman
Official number: FX 76322
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 811 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Condor, Arbroath
Date of death: 1942-06-05
Aircraft: Swordfish V 4646
Place of death: Healy Hill, near Langholm, Dumfries-shire, Scotland
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: KIRKCALDY (HAYFIELD) CEMETERY - Fifeshire, Scotland
Commemoration details: Compartment G, Grave 67
Family details: Son of Robert and Helen Paxton; husband of Margaret Paxton, of Kirkcaldy
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