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Leading Aircraftman WILLIAM RITSON BIRKETT

Service Number: 1081474
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

59 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 03 December 1945

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ROCHEFORT-SUR-MER NAVAL CEMETERY

N.E. Plot. Row 7. Grave 1.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James Glover Birkett and Bertha Birkett, of Distington, Cumberland.
  • Personal Inscription HE WENT ON THE WINGS OF THE MORNING AND MET HIS LORD ON THE WAY. DEARLY LOVED
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