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Flight Sergeant DOUGLAS NORMAN RAINS

Service Number: 641910
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 12 August 1942

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POYNTON (ST. GEORGE) CHURCHYARD

New part. Grave 78.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Albert Henry and Ethel Rains, of Poynton.
  • Personal Inscription THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD
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Buried or commemorated at

POYNTON (ST. GEORGE) CHURCHYARD
Cheshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 10
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