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Flying Officer CLAUDE MERVYN WHEATLEY

Service Number: 39147
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 22 March 1940

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

3. F. 14.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest and Marion Wheatley; husband of Joan Wheatley, of Worthing, Sussex.
  • Personal Inscription "HE, AS HE FLEW, PASSED DEATH UPON THE WING, THEN, DEATHLESS, ROSE TO IMMORTALITY"
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Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 7671
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