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Pilot Officer WILLIAM FERRIES RAFFAN

Service Number: 123953
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

10 O.T.U.

Date of Death

Died 29 October 1942

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TAULE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 6.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Margaret Ann Raffan; husband of Margaret Raffan, of Ossett, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription MAY THE WORLD REMEMBER AND ALLOW THE SON HE NEVER KNEW TO LIVE IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

TAULE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Finistere France
Number of casualties: 6
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