Service Details
Name:
 JONES
Given Name:
 CECIL FRANK
Initials:
 C F
Service No:
 89361
Trade:
 Obs.
Rank:
 Pilot Officer
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 58 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1941-04-08
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Date of Birth:
 1908-11-26
Age:
 32
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Whitley T4145, target Kiel, Germany, shot down by Oberfeldwebel Paul Gildner (4./NJG1), flying a Messerschmitt Bf 110 night-fighter
Additional
Information:
Son of Thomas Charvet Jones and Emma Jones, of Northern Rhodesia. Educated Umtata High School. It is believed that he worked as a stoker on the Union castle Mail boat to England, before he joined the RAF.
Commemoration
Country:
 Netherlands
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Cemetery:
 GRONINGEN (ESSERVELD) GENERAL CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Plot RW. Row Class 2. Joint grave 2.

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