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Pilot Officer DESMON BYRNE SNAPE

Service Number: 420071
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Australian Air Force

Date of Death

Died 24 February 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LOPPERSUM GENERAL CEMETERY

Plot B. Row 11. Grave 10.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Claude Manning Snape and Doris Mary Snape,.
  • Personal Inscription HIS DUTY FEARLESSLY AND NOBLY DONE. EVER REMEMBERED
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Buried or commemorated at

LOPPERSUM GENERAL CEMETERY
Groningen Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1
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