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Flight Sergeant CHARLES CROOKES

Service Number: 1398447
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

186 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 14 April 1945

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HITHER GREEN CEMETERY

Sec. G.G. Grave 384.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Louisa Crookes; husband of Daisy Crookes, of Orpington, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL, HIS UNFINISHED LIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

HITHER GREEN CEMETERY
London United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 256
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