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Flight Lieutenant JACK MARTINDALE WHITWELL

Service Number: 44540
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 11 April 1943

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GRANTHAM CEMETERY

Sec. 19. Row C. Grave 17.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Air Force Medal
  • Additional Info Son of John Martindale Whitwell and Clara Winifred Whitwell; husband of Audrey Dinah Whitwell, of Grantham.
  • Personal Inscription UPON LIFE'S THRESHOLD, GALLANT, GAY AND SHY HE FLEW INTO HIS HERITAGE, THE SKY. TO THOSE WHO HERE MUST MOURN HIM FOR A WHILE HE LEFT BEHIND HIM AN UNDYING SMILE
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