Service Details
Name:
 FAIRWEATHER
Given Name:
 KEITH
Initials:
 K
Service No:
 542974V
Trade:
 Nav.
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 178 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-08-15
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Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Liberator B24J Mk VI #KG873, failed to return from low level supply drop to Polish Home Army in Warsaw
Additional
Information:
Son of Alexander and Margaret Grace Fairweather, of Kroonstad, Orange Free State. Born Kroonstad. An engineer.
Commemoration
Country:
 Poland
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Cemetery:
 KRAKOW RAKOWICKI CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave 1. D. 9-13.

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