Sergeant CHARLES ALFRED GEORGE PLANK
Service Number: 1435434
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
159 Sqdn.
Date of Death
Died 29 February 1944
Age 20 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of Alfred Bunce Plank and Margaret Eleanor Plank; husband of Jessie Plank, of Liverpool. This airman died with his eight crewmates. The individually unidentified remains of only seven of the crew are buried in Plot 4, Row E, Graves 14 to 20 of RANGOON WAR CEMETERY, Myanmar. Each grave marker reads: AN AIRMAN OF THE 1939-1945 WAR, ROYAL AIR FORCE, 29TH FEBRUARY 1944, KNOWN UNTO GOD. All nine men are commemorated by name on the SINGAPORE MEMORIAL.
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