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Name: C W B SMITH
Rank: Lieutenant
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 821 and 826 Squadrons (Commanding Officer)
Ship/station: H.M.S. Grebe, Dekheila, Egypt
Date of death: 1942-03-05
Aircraft: Albacore T 9238
Place of death: Fuka, Western Desert, Egypt
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Plot XXIX, Row F, Grave 26
Family details: Son of Captain Charles Edgar Holton Smith, R.A.M.C., (Killed in Action in France, 16th September, 1916) and of Ethel Bertha Smith, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Rank: Lieutenant
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 821 and 826 Squadrons (Commanding Officer)
Ship/station: H.M.S. Grebe, Dekheila, Egypt
Date of death: 1942-03-05
Aircraft: Albacore T 9238
Place of death: Fuka, Western Desert, Egypt
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Plot XXIX, Row F, Grave 26
Family details: Son of Captain Charles Edgar Holton Smith, R.A.M.C., (Killed in Action in France, 16th September, 1916) and of Ethel Bertha Smith, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
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