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Pilot Officer ROGER NICHOLAS FRANKLIN

Service Number: 127956
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 16 January 1943

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LLANTWIT MAJOR CEMETERY

Sec. C. Grave 37.

United Kingdom

Good condition

Photographer: John Jewell

Headstone in good condition and area around grave clean and tidy.

Photographer: John Jewell

Gravestone in good condition and clean with surrounding area well maintained

Photographer: John Jewell

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Richard James Franklin and of Gladys Susie Franklin (nee Allum), of Balgowan, Natal, South Africa.
  • Personal Inscription SOUL, THOU ART FREE, UNFURL THY PINION; EARTH HAVE DOMINION, BODY, O'ER THEE
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Buried or commemorated at

LLANTWIT MAJOR CEMETERY
Glamorganshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 84
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