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Leading Aircraftman JAMES GIBBONS

Service Number: 619512
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 15 April 1945

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BASRA WAR CEMETERY

8. G. 4.

Iraq

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry and Mary Ellen Gibbons; of Openshaw, Manchester; husband of Dorothy Violet Gibbons.
  • Personal Inscription DEEP IN OUR HEARTS THE MEMORY IS KEPT, OF ONE WE LOVED AND LOST. ALL AT 31
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Buried or commemorated at

BASRA WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 3071
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