Service Details
Name:
 MAJOR
Given Name:
 MICHAEL WAKEMAN
Initials:
 M W
Service No:
 80086
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Pilot Officer
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Date of Death:
 1941-07-22
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Date of Birth:
 1912-12-21
Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Hampden I P5305, night navigation exercise. On its return, during landing they undershot the runway and crashed in a field next to the airfield at 02:15 hrs.
Additional
Information:
Son of the Revd. Henry Dewsbury Alves Major, D.D., F.S.A., and of Mary Eliza Major, of Merton Vicarage. B.A. (Oxon.): Exeter College. Attended Dragon School, Oxford. Attended Sherborne School (School House) September 1926-December 1928. Clerk to the High Court of Justice, Southern Rhodesia. Took his aviators' certificate in a DH60 Gipsy at Eastbourne Flying Club on 16 September 1937.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Oxfordshire
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Cemetery:
 UPPER HEYFORD CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Sec. B. Grave 88.

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