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Corporal MELVILLE FRANCIS FORTUNE

Service Number: 620140
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 30 April 1943

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KARACHI WAR CEMETERY

1. A. 15.

Pakistan

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Melville and Florence Fortune, of Plumtree, Nottinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription WITH THE MORN THOSE ANGEL FACES SMILE, WHICH WE HAVE LOVED AND LOST AWHILE
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Buried or commemorated at

KARACHI WAR CEMETERY
Pakistan
Number of casualties: 642
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