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Pilot Officer JAMES RAYMOND PERTWEE

Service Number: 60562
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

51 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 09 June 1941

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DISHFORTH CEMETERY

Grave 10.

United Kingdom

Famous casualties: headstone of Pilot Officer James Pertwee, brother of actor Bill Pertwee who played ARP Warden Hodges in 'Dad's Army', in Dishforth Cemetery, Yorkshire, UK

Photographer: CWGC staff

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James Francis Carter Pertwee, and of Dulce Pertwee, of Oxhey, Hertfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription IN PROUD AND LOVING MEMORY OF MY SON
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Buried or commemorated at

DISHFORTH CEMETERY
Yorkshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 89
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