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Pilot Officer FRANCIS LESLIE VARNEY

Service Number: 142861
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

54 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 16 March 1943

Buried or commemorated at

ADELAIDE RIVER WAR CEMETERY

G.C.10.

Australia

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Francis Earnest and Doris Varney; husband of Eileen Veronica Varney, of Crawley, Sussex, England.
  • Personal Inscription BORN OF THE STARS. FOR A WHILE, UNTO THE STARS HE FLEW
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Buried or commemorated at

ADELAIDE RIVER WAR CEMETERY
Northern Territory Australia
Number of casualties: 435
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