Service Details
Name:
 WYCHE
Given Name:
 PETER CYRILL
Initials:
 P C
Service No:
 59481
Rank:
 Flight Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force
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Unit:
 RAF Bassingbourn
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Date of Death:
 1954-06-24
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Date of Birth:
 1925-12-23
Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, EE Canberra B.2 WD981, as the aircraft returned to RAF Bassingbourn at approximately 1,000 feet, the aircraft canopy blew off near the village of Melbourne, but the aircraft continued straight ahead. Having climbed to about 4,500 feet the tail was seen to rise sharply and the nose drop with the aircraft diving into the ground 1/2 mile West of Six Mile Bottom, Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, killing all three crew
Additional
Information:
Of Queenstown, Cape, South Africa
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Cambridgeshire
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Cemetery:
 BASSINGBOURN-CUM-KNEESWORTH CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Grave 11 JJ

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