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Name: F J TAYLOR
Rank: Acting Naval Airman 1st Class
Official number: FX 79489
Role: Winch Operator
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 727 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Cormorant II, North Front, Gibraltar
Date of death: 1943-08-10
Aircraft: Defiant DS 153
Place of death: At sea, off Algiers
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 4, Panel 3
Family details: Son of Arthur Edward and Ada Taylor; husband of Barbara Yvonne Taylor of Leicester
Rank: Acting Naval Airman 1st Class
Official number: FX 79489
Role: Winch Operator
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 727 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Cormorant II, North Front, Gibraltar
Date of death: 1943-08-10
Aircraft: Defiant DS 153
Place of death: At sea, off Algiers
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 4, Panel 3
Family details: Son of Arthur Edward and Ada Taylor; husband of Barbara Yvonne Taylor of Leicester
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