Identity
Person No.
8516
Service No.
160154
Last Name
First Name
Dewhurst
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D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
21
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,780
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, Crashed at Equennes-Eramecourt, Somme. Lancaster I ME859 KM-S left Dunholme Lodge at 22.33 hrs. to bomb the flying bomb storage site at St-Leu. Bombing was reported as accurate resulting in the blocking of the entrance tunnels and the approach roads
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Notes
Son of Hendrik Christian and Lucy Jane Graaff, of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. His brother Stafford also died on service.
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