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Squadron Leader ERNEST GORDON SPRINGTHORPE

Service Number: 119012
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 08 August 1947

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MUNSTER HEATH WAR CEMETERY

2. D. 8.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest and Elizabeth Springthorpe, of Leicester.
  • Personal Inscription "PEACE, PERFECT PEACE" HIS LIFE A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY
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Buried or commemorated at

MUNSTER HEATH WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 869
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