Service Details
Name:
 WINGFIELD
Given Name:
 RICHARD SYDNEY MERVYN
Initials:
 R S M
Service No:
 328930V
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 450 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1945-04-12
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Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Kittyhawk IV FX553, left on armed recce, blew up in bomb dive near Medicina (probably faulty bomb fuse)
Additional
Information:
Son of Richard Mervyn and Lynette Agnes Wingfield, of Kenilworth
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 FORLI WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 VII, B, 21.

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