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Sergeant WILLIAM HENRY WHITCOMBE

Service Number: 41561
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal New Zealand Air Force

75 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 16 December 1942

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NEWMARKET CEMETERY

Plot O. Grave 399.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of Eric Whitcombe and of Jane Morton Whitcombe (nee Henderson), of Pahiatua, Wellington, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

NEWMARKET CEMETERY
Suffolk United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 85
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