The story
Name: L P E PORTER
Rank: Leading Airman (TY)
Official number: SR 16224
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RNSR
Squadron: 826 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Grebe, Dekheila, Egypt
Date of death: 1941-09-27
Aircraft: Albacore
Place of death: Libya
Circumstances: D.O.W.
Buried/commemorated: EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Plot XXIX, Row E, Grave 15
Family details: Son of Herbert Edward and Gertrude Eve Porter, of Purley, Surrey
Rank: Leading Airman (TY)
Official number: SR 16224
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RNSR
Squadron: 826 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Grebe, Dekheila, Egypt
Date of death: 1941-09-27
Aircraft: Albacore
Place of death: Libya
Circumstances: D.O.W.
Buried/commemorated: EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY
Commemoration details: Plot XXIX, Row E, Grave 15
Family details: Son of Herbert Edward and Gertrude Eve Porter, of Purley, Surrey
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