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Flight Lieutenant RICHARD LESLIE WILLIAM CHEEK

Service Number: 131080
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 30 May 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BARI WAR CEMETERY

XV. C. 27.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Service Order
  • Additional Info Son of Richard Charles and Mary Elizabeth Cheek, of Bayswater, London.
  • Personal Inscription GOD TOOK HIM HOME IT WAS HIS WILL BUT DEEP IN OUR HEARTS HE IS LIVING STILL
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Buried or commemorated at

BARI WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2251
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