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Leading Aircraftman EDWARD FRANK MELSON

Service Number: 1516522
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

979 Balloon Sqdn

Date of Death

Died 17 August 1942

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANCHI WAR CEMETERY

9. E. 5.

India

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest Joseph and Ida Marian Melson; husband of Lilian Grace Laura Melson, of Chessington, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF HAPPY DAYS WHEN WE WERE THREE TOGETHER. LILIAN & DAVID
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