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Pilot Officer EDWARD HEWITT PETLEY

Service Number: 42148
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 15 December 1942

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PIETERMARITZBURG (FORT NAPIER) CEMETERY

Row F. Grave 9.

South Africa

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Walter and Agnes M Petley, of Rudgwick, Sussex, England.
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Buried or commemorated at

PIETERMARITZBURG (FORT NAPIER) CEMETERY
Kwazulu Natal South Africa
Number of casualties: 523
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