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Pilot Officer ROWLAND CLIFTON NELSON

Service Number: 433533
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Australian Air Force

Date of Death

Died 13 July 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LAE WAR CEMETERY

DD. C. 8.

Papua New Guinea

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  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Horatio Arthur and Dorothy Rosina Nelson, of Croydon, New South Wales.
  • Personal Inscription GOD GIVETH AND GOD TAKETH AWAY BLESSED IS OUR SON IN GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

LAE WAR CEMETERY
Papua New Guinea
Number of casualties: 2819
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