The story
Name: D TUCKER
Rank: Temp Acting Petty Officer Airman (TY)
Official number: NZD 3070
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNZN
Squadron: 768 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Smiter
Date of death: 1944-12-29
Aircraft: Wildcat V JV 527 (?)
Place of death: Firth of Clyde
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: NEW ZEALAND NAVAL MEMORIAL, DEVONPORT, AUCKLAND, North Shore City
Commemoration details: Panel 3
Family details: Son of Sydney F. B. and Annie Tucker, of Island Bay, Wellington, New Zealand
Rank: Temp Acting Petty Officer Airman (TY)
Official number: NZD 3070
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNZN
Squadron: 768 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Smiter
Date of death: 1944-12-29
Aircraft: Wildcat V JV 527 (?)
Place of death: Firth of Clyde
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: NEW ZEALAND NAVAL MEMORIAL, DEVONPORT, AUCKLAND, North Shore City
Commemoration details: Panel 3
Family details: Son of Sydney F. B. and Annie Tucker, of Island Bay, Wellington, New Zealand
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