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Squadron Leader MICHAEL EDWARD THWAITES

Service Number: 79550
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

7 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 12 March 1943

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MINAUCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 1.

France

Minaucourt Communal cemetery, France: images provided by volunteer photographer Laurence Bertholet

Photographer: Laurence Bertholet

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Distinguished Flying Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Jeffrey Marsland Thwaites and Jessie Lilian Thwaites; husband of Mary Thwaites, of Broadoak Park, Worsley, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
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