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Name: L SHANKS
Rank: Petty Officer Air Mechanic (E)
Official number: L/FX 80056
Role: -
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: -
Ship/station: H.M.S. Heron, Yeovilton
Date of death: 1947-08-04
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: Sherborne, Dorset
Circumstances: D.O.I.
Buried/commemorated: KEWSTOKE (ST PAUL) CHURCHYARD - Somerset
Commemoration details: Plot A, Grave 76
Family details: Son of John C Shanks and Annie Shanks; husband of Elfreda Ada Shanks, of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. Native of Whitehaven
Rank: Petty Officer Air Mechanic (E)
Official number: L/FX 80056
Role: -
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: -
Ship/station: H.M.S. Heron, Yeovilton
Date of death: 1947-08-04
Aircraft: - -
Place of death: Sherborne, Dorset
Circumstances: D.O.I.
Buried/commemorated: KEWSTOKE (ST PAUL) CHURCHYARD - Somerset
Commemoration details: Plot A, Grave 76
Family details: Son of John C Shanks and Annie Shanks; husband of Elfreda Ada Shanks, of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. Native of Whitehaven
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