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Flight Sergeant GILBERT TANNAHILL DAWSON

Service Number: 1285473
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

40 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 22 November 1942

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BONE WAR CEMETERY, ANNABA

V. C. 15.

Algeria

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Gilbert Dawson and of Margaret Dickson Dawson (nee Tannahill), of Hertford.
  • Personal Inscription "UNTIL THE DAY BREAK AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY"
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Buried or commemorated at

BONE WAR CEMETERY, ANNABA
Algeria
Number of casualties: 888
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