Service Details
Name:
 LOVEMORE
Given Name:
 ROBERT ST. CYPRIAN NUTCOMBE
Initials:
 R S C N
Service No:
 774054
Trade:
 Pilot U/T
Rank:
 Leading Aircraftman
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Date of Death:
 1940-09-12
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Date of Birth:
 1919-02-08
Age:
 21
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Audax I K7523, mid-air collision between Audax 7517 and Audax 7523, at Habbaniya Aerodrome, near Baghdad. He had become eligible for his 'wings' two days before he was killed
Additional
Information:
Son of Norman Baillie Lovemore and Constance Mary Nowell (nee Gould) Lovemore, of Knysna, Cape Province, South Africa. Born Rugby, England. Educated Junior Grey School, Port Elizabeth; Cadet Draft 1935-6 (Junior Cadet Captain). After leaving General Botha, Robert St. Cyprian Nutcombe Lovemore took up farming as a career, but on the outbreak of war in 1939 joined the RAF and in 1940 was sent to Iraq to complete his training. Commemoration stone in Lovemore Family Cemetery, Eastern Cape
Commemoration
Country:
 Iraq
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Cemetery:
 HABBANIYA WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 4. C. 7.

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