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Pilot Officer WILLIAM ELVIN

Service Number: 426883
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal New Zealand Air Force

Date of Death

Died 12 August 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOTTON WAR CEMETERY

Coll. grave VI. G. 1-6.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of John Adolphus Elvin and of Nellie Elvin (nee Cairns), of Edinburgh, Scotland; husband of Elva Mahala Elvin, of Wanganui, Wellington, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

HOTTON WAR CEMETERY
Luxembourg Belgium
Number of casualties: 668
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