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Flight Sergeant ERIC OSCAR DOWNING YORKE

Service Number: 1439296
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

51 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 18 April 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GRAND-SERAUCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

7. G. 9.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Garnett Oliver Yorke and Adelaide Esther Yorke, of Horsforth, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription "TAKE YE HEED, WATCH AND PRAY: FOR YE KNOW NOT WHEN THE TIME IS"
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Buried or commemorated at

GRAND-SERAUCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Aisne France
Number of casualties: 1377
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