Service Details
Name:
 YORKE
Given Name:
 PETER
Initials:
 P
Service No:
 160033
Trade:
 Nav.
Rank:
 Flying Officer
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 44 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-12-04
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Date of Birth:
 1910-11-11
Age:
 34
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Lancaster PD373, bomb a target in Heilbronn. Mid-air collision with LM259, both aircraft crashing NW of Kleiningersheim, 18 km SSW of Heilbronn
Additional
Information:
Entered Preparatory School in January 1919. Before the war he was farming on the Charter Estate. He attested in August 1942, received preliminary training in Rhodesia, and went overseas in May 1943. On Plumtree School Roll of Honour
Commemoration
Country:
 Germany
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Locality:
 Bad Tolz, Bayern
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Cemetery:
 DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 4. D. 23.

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