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Sergeant DONALD HANDFORD

Service Number: 1183372
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

226 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 27 April 1942

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OOSTENDE NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot 9. Row 4. Grave 29.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Gertrude Alice Handford, of Coalville, Leicester.
  • Personal Inscription REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

OOSTENDE NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 432
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