Service Details
Name:
 DRAKE
Given Name:
 CHARLES FRANCIS
Initials:
 C F
Service No:
 102340
Trade:
 Obs.
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 12 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1942-06-04
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Age:
 30
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Douglas Boston Mk III #AL720, hit AL783 on take-off, Bir el Baheira
Additional
Information:
Son of John B. and Beatrice L. Drake; husband of Dorothea Gertrude Drake, of Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa. A.R.I.B.A.
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 HALFAYA SOLLUM WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 12. C. 7.

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