Captain VERNON JOHN HAMMOND
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Air Force
No. 2 Training Wing
Date of Death
Died 23 February 1919
Age 27 years old
Buried or commemorated at
CITY OF LONDON CEMETERY AND CREMATORIUM, MANOR PARK
144. 54773.
United Kingdom
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of John George and Maria Hammond, of 61, Cromwell Avenue, Highgate, London. Mentioned four times in American Despatches. Joined H.M. Forces 1914; served 15 months in France; 1 year in U.S.A. Army Balloon Schools, Fort Omaha and San Antonio, training American airmen, 1917-18. Born in Essex.
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