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Pilot Officer WILLIAM GEORGE SANKEY

Service Number: 197338
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

115 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 30 August 1944

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OVE CHURCHYARD

Denmark

Headstone of one of the seven Commonwealth airmen buried in a collective grave in Ove Churchyard, Denmark

Photographer: Unknown

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Edwin and Edith Emily Sankey; husband of Edith May Sankey, of Romford, Essex. B.A. (Lond.).
  • Personal Inscription RISE UP, O MEN OF GOD! BRING IN THE DAY OF BROTHERHOOD AND END THE NIGHT OF WRONG
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