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Name: L H WIREN
Rank: Temp Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNZNVR
Squadron: 878 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1943-06-04
Aircraft: Martlet IV FN288
Place of death: Biugeaith Hill, near Finstown, Orkney Islands
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: KIRKWALL (ST. OLAF'S) CEMETERY, Orkney, Scotland
Commemoration details: Plot 33. Grave 4
Family details: Son of Lonsdale William Frederick Wiren, and of Jessie Evelyn Wiren (nee Hollis), of Lyall Bay, Wellington, New Zealand.
Rank: Temp Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNZNVR
Squadron: 878 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1943-06-04
Aircraft: Martlet IV FN288
Place of death: Biugeaith Hill, near Finstown, Orkney Islands
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: KIRKWALL (ST. OLAF'S) CEMETERY, Orkney, Scotland
Commemoration details: Plot 33. Grave 4
Family details: Son of Lonsdale William Frederick Wiren, and of Jessie Evelyn Wiren (nee Hollis), of Lyall Bay, Wellington, New Zealand.
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