Service Details
Name:
 LAWRIE
Given Name:
 GORDON
Initials:
 G
Service No:
 102792V
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 31 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-08-17
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Date of Birth:
 1916-10-24
Age:
 27
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Liberator B24J Mk VI #EW161, 7 crew (1 RAF and 2 RAFVR), shot down by Luftwaffe night fighter over Lysagora, southern Poland while en route to drop supplies to Polish Home Army Partisans, in Warsaw, Poland
Additional
Information:
Son of David Knox Lawrie and Amy Irene Lawrie; husband of Isabella Frances Travers Lawrie, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Born Bloemfontein, Orange Free State
Commemoration
Country:
 Poland
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Cemetery:
 KRAKOW RAKOWICKI CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave 1. D. 3.

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