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Flight Sergeant DESMOND WILLIAM THANE

Service Number: 404557
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal New Zealand Air Force

408 (R.C.A.F.) Sqdn

Date of Death

Died 28 December 1941

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WINTERSWIJK CEMETERY

Grave 8.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of Edward William Theodore Thane and of Doris Thane (nee Bentley), of Wellington City, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

WINTERSWIJK CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 50
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