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Leading Airman DAVID ALEC BOLTON

Service Number: FX79396
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Navy

H.M.S. Lanka.

Date of Death

Died 05 April 1942

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COLOMBO (KANATTE) GENERAL CEMETERY

Plot 6B. Row P. Grave 12A.

Sri Lanka

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alexander John and Nellie Margaret Bolton, of Wimbledon, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription NO MAN COULD BIND HIM TO THE EARTH, ON SUN-TIPPED WINGS HE LOVED TO FLY
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