Service Details
Name:
 CORBET
Given Name:
 WALTER HENRY
Initials:
 W H
Service No:
 41152
Rank:
 Squadron Leader
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force
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Date of Death:
 1945-05-07
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Date of Birth:
 1920-08-09
Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Mosquito broke up and crashed between Lydney and Gloucester during a high-altitude night cross-country exercise, possibly due to oxygen starvation
Decorations:
 Distinguished Flying Cross
Additional
Information:
Son of William Joseph Mullhall Corbet and of Josephine Corbet (nee MacMullen); husband of Shirley Mullhall Corbet, of Chelsea, London formerly of Johannesburg. Born Dublin.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Buckinghamshire
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Cemetery:
 HALTON (ST. MICHAEL) CHURCHYARD
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Grave Reference:
 Plot 3. Row C. Grave 157.

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