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Flight Lieutenant WILLIAM ASTELL

Service Number: 60283
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

617 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 17 May 1943

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY

21. D. 13.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Flying Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Godfrey Grant Astell and Margery Helen Astell, of Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription THINK NOT OF ME AS DEAD: HAPPY HE WHOSE COURSE IS SPED. HE HAS GONE HOME- TO GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

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