The story
Name: G H C DEANS
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 88415
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: No.31 Secondary Flying Training School, Kingston, Ontario
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1942-04-13
Aircraft: Harvard AJ 651
Place of death: Canada
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: KINGSTON (CATARAQUI) CEMETERY - Ontario
Commemoration details: Section G, Range 6, Grave 3
Family details: Son of George Hector Cowan Deans and Mary Mitchell Deans, of Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 88415
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: No.31 Secondary Flying Training School, Kingston, Ontario
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1942-04-13
Aircraft: Harvard AJ 651
Place of death: Canada
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: KINGSTON (CATARAQUI) CEMETERY - Ontario
Commemoration details: Section G, Range 6, Grave 3
Family details: Son of George Hector Cowan Deans and Mary Mitchell Deans, of Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland
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