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Name: A C McCRACKEN
Rank: Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNZNVR
Squadron: 759 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Heron, Yeovilton
Date of death: 1943-05-15
Aircraft: Sea Hurricane Ib V6760
Place of death: Chilcompton, Somerset
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: DOWNSIDE ABBEY MONASTIC CEMETERY, Somerset
Commemoration details: West side.
Family details: Son of William Alexander McCracken and of Ethel Grace McCracken (nee Jacobsen), of Whakatane, Auckland, New Zealand
Rank: Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNZNVR
Squadron: 759 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Heron, Yeovilton
Date of death: 1943-05-15
Aircraft: Sea Hurricane Ib V6760
Place of death: Chilcompton, Somerset
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: DOWNSIDE ABBEY MONASTIC CEMETERY, Somerset
Commemoration details: West side.
Family details: Son of William Alexander McCracken and of Ethel Grace McCracken (nee Jacobsen), of Whakatane, Auckland, New Zealand
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