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Leading Aircraftman DAVID ERNEST McCANDLESS

Service Number: 1505551
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 10 July 1944

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PADGATE (CHRIST CHURCH) CHURCHYARD

Grave 135.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Cathryn Ann McCandless; husband of Gwendoline H. McCandless, of Woolston. School Teacher.
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Buried or commemorated at

PADGATE (CHRIST CHURCH) CHURCHYARD
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 15
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