In Memory Of

LOVEMORE, ROBERT ST. CYPRIAN NUTCOMBE

Service Details
Age:
 21
Date of Birth:
 1919-02-08
Service No:
 774054
Rank:
 Leading Aircraftman
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
 1940-09-12
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Audax I K7523, mid-air collision between Audax 7517 and Audax 7523, at Habbaniya Aerodrome, near Baghdad. He had become eligible for his 'wings' two days before he was killed
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 4. C. 7.
Cemetery:
 HABBANIYA WAR CEMETERY
Country:
 Iraq
Additional Information
Son of Norman Baillie Lovemore and Constance Mary Nowell (nee Gould) Lovemore, of Knysna, Cape Province, South Africa. Born Rugby, England. Educated Junior Grey School, Port Elizabeth; Cadet Draft 1935-6 (Junior Cadet Captain). After leaving General Botha, Robert St. Cyprian Nutcombe Lovemore took up farming as a career, but on the outbreak of war in 1939 joined the RAF and in 1940 was sent to Iraq to complete his training. Commemoration stone in Lovemore Family Cemetery, Eastern Cape