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Leading Aircraftman GEORGE WILLIAM FRANCE

Service Number: 647957
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 11 January 1943

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PORT SAID WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

V. C. 20.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Mary Elizabeth France, of Manchester; husband of Edith Jane France, of Greenheys, Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription A SECRET THOUGHT A SILENT TEAR KEEP HIS MEMORY EVER DEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

PORT SAID WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 1104
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