Service Details
Name:
 LANDER
Given Name:
 CUTHBERT MONS
Initials:
 C M
Service No:
 108159
Rank:
 Wing Commander
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 1307 Wing
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Date of Death:
 1945-03-24
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Age:
 30
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, led the daily dawn sweep to clear the Meiktila airfield. The ensuing contact with the Japanese resulted in himself and his runner, LAC "Jock" Dakers, being killed by enemy snipers. He had carried the attack so far into the Japanese defended area that it was several days before the bodies could be recovered for burial
Additional
Information:
Son of William Richard and Mary Eleanor Lander; husband of Eileen Olive Lander, of Bancroft, Northern Rhodesia.
Commemoration
Country:
 Myanmar
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Cemetery:
 TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 20. B. 24.

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