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Name: G H ABBOTT
Rank: Acting Petty Officer Airman (TY)
Official number: FX 91510
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 771 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Tern, Twatt
Date of death: 1944-05-01
Aircraft: Skua
Place of death: off Isle of Ronsay, Kirkwall.
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: KIRKWALL (ST OLAF'S) CEMETERY - Orkney, Scotland
Commemoration details: Plot 33, Grave 10
Family details: Son of Henry Ernest and Jessie Brown McIntosh Abbott, of Glasgow
Rank: Acting Petty Officer Airman (TY)
Official number: FX 91510
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 771 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Tern, Twatt
Date of death: 1944-05-01
Aircraft: Skua
Place of death: off Isle of Ronsay, Kirkwall.
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: KIRKWALL (ST OLAF'S) CEMETERY - Orkney, Scotland
Commemoration details: Plot 33, Grave 10
Family details: Son of Henry Ernest and Jessie Brown McIntosh Abbott, of Glasgow
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