Service Details
Name:
 GRAY
Given Name:
 ROBERT EDWARD
Initials:
 R E
Rank:
 Captain
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 2 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1949-08-18
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Age:
 30
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Supermarine Spitfire Mk IXE #5571, blacked out in dive on bombing range, crashed on the farm Sterkfontein, near Pretoria
Additional
Information:
Son of Robert and Helen Roda Gray, of Sarnia, Natal. Husband of Rita Mary Gray (nee Bennett), of Pretoria. Born Pretoria. ref. 85 years of SAAF
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 JOHANNESBURG AREA CEMETERY ?
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Grave Reference:
 Reportetly cremated at Braamfontein

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