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Flying Officer WILLIAM DAWSON FAIRNEY

Service Number: 53255
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

178 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 08 August 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BUDAPEST WAR CEMETERY

III. A. 6.

Hungary

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph J. and Ann Isabel Greason Fairney, of Seaton Sluice, Northumberland.
  • Personal Inscription OUR DEAR DEVOTED SON. WE ARE PRAYING FOR THE GREAT REUNION. ALL OUR LOVE. MAM AND DAD
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Buried or commemorated at

BUDAPEST WAR CEMETERY
Hungary
Number of casualties: 210
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