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Sergeant RUPERT SUTTON WHITCOMBE

Service Number: 404108
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal New Zealand Air Force

Date of Death

Died 02 March 1943

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ROTTERDAM (CROOSWIJK) GENERAL CEMETERY

Plot LL. Row 2. Grave 31.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of Henry George and Janet Catherine Martin Whitcombe, of Tawa Flat, Wellington, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

ROTTERDAM (CROOSWIJK) GENERAL CEMETERY
Zuid-Holland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 136
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