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Pilot Officer WILLIAM MEAD LINDSLEY FISKE

Service Number: 78092
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

601 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 17 August 1940

Buried or commemorated at

BOXGROVE (SS. MARY AND BLAISE) CHURCHYARD

Sec. F. Grave 2.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Born in the U.S.A. One of only two Americans who died in the Battle of Britain. On 4th July, 1941 the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair, unveiled a Memorial Plaque to Fiske, in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral. .
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