Service Details
Name:
 GAIN
Given Name:
 ROBERT GORDON GOODENOUGH
Initials:
 R G G
Service No:
 777666
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 266 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1941-10-29
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Date of Birth:
 1921-04-28
Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Spitfire AD178, near Sedgebrook, Lincolnshire
Additional
Information:
Son of Herbert Guy Goodenough Gain and Jennie Lewis Gain, of Arcturys, Southern Rhodesia. Born Windhoek. Entered Milner House in January 1935. He was interested in dramatics and did good work for his House. He left in October 1938, and attested in the R.A.F. on July 5th, 1940, and proceeded to England for training. Before the war he was in the Geological Survey Department, Salisbury. On Plumtree School Roll of Honour
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Lincolnshire
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Cemetery:
 GRANTHAM CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Sec. 17. Row L. Grave 11.

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