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Pilot Officer SWANTE OLIVER HILL

Service Number: J/16087
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Canadian Air Force

18 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 29 July 1942

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SAGE WAR CEMETERY

4. D. 13.

Germany

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Wains and Lempi Hill; husband of Bessie Hill, of Norwich.
  • Personal Inscription "NIGHT SHALL FOLD HIM IN SOFT WINGS"
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Buried or commemorated at

SAGE WAR CEMETERY
Niedersachsen Germany
Number of casualties: 971
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