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Pilot Officer ORLEY WHITNEY BLIGH

Service Number: 42186
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

97 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 10 February 1940

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ABINGDON CEMETERY

Sec. 9. Row X. Grave 18.

United Kingdom

Portland

Photographer: Steve cox

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Oakley Bligh and Mary Kathleen Bligh of Berwick, King's Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • Personal Inscription OUR LOVE FOR HIM WHO SLEEPS BENEATH SHALL NEVER FADE AWAY
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