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Pilot Officer ALAN GILLESPIE

Service Number: 144205
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

617 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 16 May 1943

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

5. C. 10.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Flying Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Margaret Gillespie, of Carlisle.
  • Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
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Buried or commemorated at

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