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Flying Officer THOMAS WATT BRIGGS

Service Number: 55018
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

57 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 15 February 1944

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BLOKZIJL GENERAL CEMETERY

Grave 133.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Hugh and Isabella Briggs; husband of Christina Shiels Hepburn Briggs, of East Linton, East Lothian.
  • Personal Inscription AND WITH THE MORN THOSE ANGEL FACES SMILE WHICH I HAVE LOVED... AND LOST AWHILE
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Buried or commemorated at

BLOKZIJL GENERAL CEMETERY
Overijssel Netherlands
Number of casualties: 7
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