Service Details
Name:
 MUNRO
Given Name:
 IAN MACKENZIE
Initials:
 I M
Service No:
 80359
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Flight Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 266 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1943-05-03
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Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Typhoon IB EJ932, air crash, over Exeter
Additional
Information:
Son of William MacKenzie Munro and Dora Denham Munro, of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. His brother, Roich Hamish MacKenzie Munro, also died on service. After attendance at George Watson's College from 1933 to 1937, during which he was awarded his 1st XV Colours, 1st XI Colours, and Shooting Colours, he returned to S. Rhodesia to enter the tobacco industry. Volunteering for the R.A.F. in 1939, he was called up in September 1940 and was trained in S. Rhodesia and in Great Britain.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Devon
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Cemetery:
 EXETER HIGHER CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Sec. Z.K. Grave 91.

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