Service Details
Name:
 FRIPP
Given Name:
 EDWARD WILLIAM BERNARD
Initials:
 E W B
Service No:
 47231
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 21 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1941-09-27
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Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, 4 crew (1 survived as POW) shot down in flames over sea by 2 Bf109s on first op, in Martin Maryland Mk I/II #1650
Additional
Information:
Son of Leopold Henry and Ivy Marion Fripp, of Louis Trichardt, Transvaal, South Africa. Born Johannesburg
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Column 246.

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