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Pilot Officer JOHN PEILE TOLSON

Service Number: 67640
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

108 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 16 March 1942

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HARPENDEN (WESTFIELD) CEMETERY

Sec. 1. Grave L 36.

United Kingdom

Headstone

Photographer: Ieuan Guest

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Sqdn. Ldr. Wilfred George Tolson, M.C., R.A.F. (V.R.) (died on service, 12th April, 1943), and Marjorie Seymour Tolson, of Harpenden.
  • Personal Inscription KILLED IN ACTION AT JENKINSTOWN, EIRE. "PARTING LIES BEHIND, MEETING LIES BEFORE"
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