The story
Name: R K BROOKS
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 88458
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: No.1 Service Flying Training School, Netheravon
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1941-10-25
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: Netheravon, Wiltshire
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY - Surrey
Commemoration details: Plot 21, Row A, Grave 15
Family details: Son of Herbert Charles and Mabel Winifred Brooks, of Fulham, London
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 88458
Role: Pilot under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: No.1 Service Flying Training School, Netheravon
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1941-10-25
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: Netheravon, Wiltshire
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY - Surrey
Commemoration details: Plot 21, Row A, Grave 15
Family details: Son of Herbert Charles and Mabel Winifred Brooks, of Fulham, London
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