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Flying Officer DESMOND HENRY PATRICK O'BRIEN

Service Number: 55024
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

166 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 26 November 1943

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY

3. G. 14.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Doctor Patrick J. O'Brien and Elisabeth O'Brien, of Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Irish Republic.
  • Personal Inscription REQUIESCAT IN PACE. "UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS I WILL REST"
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Buried or commemorated at

RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 3339
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