Service Details
Name:
 STAPLES
Given Name:
 ALBERT FRANKLIN
Initials:
 A F
Service No:
 206129V
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 1 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1943-12-07
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Date of Birth:
 1922-10-11
Age:
 21
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, hit cement block during forced landing Trigno, in Supermarine Spitfire Mk VIII #JF448
Additional
Information:
Son of Orville Franklin and Grace (nee Mountfort) Staples, of Langholm, Cape Province, South Africa. Commemoration stone in Rokeby Park Seventh Day Adventist cemetery, Bathurst district, Eastern Cape. On Grahamstown Cathedral Parish Church memorial.
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 SANGRO RIVER WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 X. A. 39.

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