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Flight Lieutenant GILBERT WILLIAM STANHOPE

Service Number: 70877
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 01 March 1943

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SAGE WAR CEMETERY

1. D. 12.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert Melodew Stanhope and Mary Elizabeth Stanhope, of Wallington, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription LIKE RUNNERS, THEY HANDED ON THE TORCH OF LIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

SAGE WAR CEMETERY
Niedersachsen Germany
Number of casualties: 971
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