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Squadron Leader JOHN HENRY BECHER

Service Number: 36008
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 10 August 1940

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MAALA CEMETERY

H. 21.

Yemen

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Maj. John Pickard Becher, D.S.O., and Gertrude Veronica Becher, of Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England. His father fell in the 1914-1918 War.
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Buried or commemorated at

MAALA CEMETERY
Yemen
Number of casualties: 690
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