Service Details
Name:
 WOOD
Given Name:
 WILLIAM LEWIS
Initials:
 W L
Service No:
 103252
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 21 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1941-12-11
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Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Martin Maryland Mk I/II #1659, 4 crew, plane damaged by return fire from Ju52 and crash-landed at Gazala
Additional
Information:
Son of Harry and Gladys F. Wood, of Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. Commemorated on GLENCOE, MOTHS war memorial
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Column 246.

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