The story
Name: J SALTS
Rank: Acting Petty Officer Air Mechanic (E)
Official number: FX 86259
Role: -
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: -
Ship/station: H.M.S. Garuda, Coimbatore, India
Date of death: 1944-05-10
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: Columbo, Ceylon
Circumstances: D.O.I.
Buried/commemorated: COLOMBO (LIVERAMENTU) CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Plot 2, Row K, Grave 11
Family details: Son of Fred and Gertrude Salts, native of Burnley, Lancashire; husband of Jenny Louvain Salts, of Todmorden, Yorkshire
Rank: Acting Petty Officer Air Mechanic (E)
Official number: FX 86259
Role: -
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: -
Ship/station: H.M.S. Garuda, Coimbatore, India
Date of death: 1944-05-10
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: Columbo, Ceylon
Circumstances: D.O.I.
Buried/commemorated: COLOMBO (LIVERAMENTU) CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Plot 2, Row K, Grave 11
Family details: Son of Fred and Gertrude Salts, native of Burnley, Lancashire; husband of Jenny Louvain Salts, of Todmorden, Yorkshire
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