Service Details
Name:
ESSERY
Given Name:
LOUIS VIVIAN
Initials:
L V
Service No:
205447V
Rank:
Lieutenant
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Regiment:
South African Air Force
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Unit:
34 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
1944-07-26
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Date of Death 2:
1944-07-27
Age:
34
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, Liberator B24J Mk VI #KG826, 8 crew (3 RAFVR), shot down and crashed into Adriatic Sea while on return flight from the Romano Americana Oil Refinery at Ploesti, Romania
Additional
Information:
Son of Arthur and Annie Essery; husband of Vera Maud Essery, of Townsview, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. His brother also died on service
Commemoration
Country:
Malta
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Cemetery:
MALTA MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
Panel 17, Column 1.

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