Service Details
Name:
 WHITCHER
Given Name:
 HERMANUS ABRANCE
Initials:
 H A
Service No:
 328523V
Trade:
 Pilot U/T
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 29 Operational Training Unit
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Date of Death:
 1944-05-17
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Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Wellington MF314, dived through thick cloud to crash into the ground on navigation exercise, near Mendham, Beccles
Additional
Information:
Son of Alfred C. Whitcher and Johanna M. Whitcher, of Coldstream, Cape Province, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Cambridgeshire
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Cemetery:
 CAMBRIDGE CITY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Grave 13564.

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