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K L FORD — Fleet Air Arm

1941-12-19 · North Moulton, near Chivenor · United Kingdom

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Name: K L FORD
Rank: Captain
Official number: -
Role: Observer
Service/attached: Royal Marines
Squadron: 755 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Kestrel, Worthy Down
Date of death: 1941-12-19
Aircraft: Lysander V 9663
Place of death: North Moulton, near Chivenor
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: HEANTON PUNCHARDON (ST. AUGUSTINE) CHURCHYARD, Devon
Commemoration details: Row M Grave 13
Family details: Son of Lieuenant Robert Bertram Ford, 2nd Tunnelling Coy., Canadian Engineers, (killed in action in Belgium, 2nd June, 1916), and of Ethel Ford, of Hadley Common, Hertfordshire

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