In Memory Of
POWELL, WILLIAM FREDERICK
Service Details
Age:
26
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
103418
Rank:
Lieutenant
Unit:
1 Sqdn.
Regiment:
South African Air Force
Date of Death:
1942-07-13
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, in Hawker Hurricane, when he failed to return from a combat sortie in which 1 Sqn claimed five Italian CR.42 bi-planes
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Column 267.
Cemetery:
ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
Country:
Egypt
Additional Information
Son of Alfred Ernest and Margaret J. Powell, of Sunnyside, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. Commemoration stone in Tarkastad Cemetery
