Service Details
Name:
 DEBEURIER
Given Name:
 WILFRED ERIC
Initials:
 W E
Service No:
 778128
Trade:
 Flt. Engr.
Rank:
 Sergeant
Other Casualties of this Rank
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 101 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1943-01-31
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Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Lancaster ED447, aircraft took off from Holme on Spalding Moor at 0020 hrs detailed to attack targets in Hamburg. Aircraft was shot down by Kreigsmarine flak crashing at Rijk (Noord Holland) in the Haarlemmermeer polders South of Amsterdam
Additional
Information:
Son of Hubert Christie Debeurier and of Madge Mary Debeurier (nee Rae), of Tarkastad, Cape Province, South Africa. His brother also died on service. Commemoration stone in Tarkastad Cemetery
Commemoration
Country:
 Netherlands
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Cemetery:
 AMSTERDAM NEW EASTERN CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Plot 69. Row C. Coll. grave 1.

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