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Flying Officer OLIVER RIXHAM

Service Number: 48335
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 21 November 1942

Age 52 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KHARTOUM WAR CEMETERY

6. E. 9.

Sudan

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and Maria Rixham; husband of Gladys Rixham, of Hawarden, Flintshire.
  • Personal Inscription JESUS, IN THY PRECIOUS KEEPING, LEAVE WE NOW OUR DEAR ONE SLEEPING
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Buried or commemorated at

KHARTOUM WAR CEMETERY
Sudan
Number of casualties: 842
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