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Petty Officer Airman WILLIAM EWART CHINN

Service Number: P/JX 140021
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Navy

H.M.S. Sparrowhawk

Date of Death

Died 09 April 1940

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KIRKWALL (ST. OLAF'S) CEMETERY

Plot 1. Grave 24.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Wilfred Ewart Chinn and Elsie Chinn, of Barry, Glamorgan.
  • Personal Inscription WE THINK OF HIM IN SILENCE NO EYE MAY SEE US WEEP BUT DEEP WITHIN OUR HEARTS HIS MEMORY WE KEEP
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