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Flight Sergeant AUSTIN JAMES SANDFORD

Service Number: 1322905
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

101 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 27 January 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HANOVER WAR CEMETERY

Coll. grave 4. A. 1-10.

Germany

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Austin James Sandford and Margaret Blaikie Sandford; husband of Olive Grace Sandford, of New Malden, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription "MAY PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON HIM" ALL OUR LOVE TILL WE MEET AGAIN. R.I.P.
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Buried or commemorated at

HANOVER WAR CEMETERY
Niedersachsen Germany
Number of casualties: 2455
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