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Pilot Officer THOMAS BENSON BLACKBURN

Service Number: 39197
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal New Zealand Air Force

141 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 26 April 1943

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HELSTON CEMETERY

N.W. Sec. Row C. Grave 31.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Awards Distinguished Flying Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Voice Blackburn and of Marion Isobel Blackburn (nee McLeod), of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand; husband of Patrica Blackburn, of Christchurch.
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Buried or commemorated at

HELSTON CEMETERY
Cornwall United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 73
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