The story
Name: A L FLETCHER
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: D/JX 255011
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 771 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Tern, Twatt
Date of death: 1942-08-27
Aircraft: Skua
Place of death: Hewton Head, Mainland, Orkney
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: KIRKWALL (ST OLAF'S) CEMETERY - Orkney, Scotland
Commemoration details: Plot 33, Joint grave 2
Family details: Son of Alfred Lofthouse Fletcher and Mary Alice Fletcher, of Lancaster; grandson of Mr and Mrs Thomas Smith, of Lancaster
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: D/JX 255011
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 771 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Tern, Twatt
Date of death: 1942-08-27
Aircraft: Skua
Place of death: Hewton Head, Mainland, Orkney
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: KIRKWALL (ST OLAF'S) CEMETERY - Orkney, Scotland
Commemoration details: Plot 33, Joint grave 2
Family details: Son of Alfred Lofthouse Fletcher and Mary Alice Fletcher, of Lancaster; grandson of Mr and Mrs Thomas Smith, of Lancaster
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