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Pilot Officer JOHN TOY

Service Number: 196992
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

101 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 14 March 1945

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VENRAY WAR CEMETERY

VII. F. 8.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Elijah and Hilda Ann Toy, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE. DUTY NOBLY DONE "HAPPILY HE WAS AN AMIABLE YOUTH"
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Buried or commemorated at

VENRAY WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Netherlands) Netherlands
Number of casualties: 693
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