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Pilot Officer RICHARD JOHN MELVILLE TOWNSEND

Service Number: 39826
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

8 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 18 November 1939

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MAALA CEMETERY

H. 11.

Yemen

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry John and Bertha Louise Melville Townsend, of Coldean, Brighton, East Sussex, England.
  • Personal Inscription "I BARE YOU ON EAGLES' WINGS AND BROUGHT YOU UNTO MYSELF." LOVING MEMORIES
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Buried or commemorated at

MAALA CEMETERY
Yemen
Number of casualties: 690
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