Service Details
Name:
 PALMER
Given Name:
 DOUGLAS JOHN
Initials:
 D J
Service No:
 329040V
Trade:
 W.Op./Air Gnr.
Rank:
 Warrant Officer Class I
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 31 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-08-17
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Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, 8 crew (1 RAF & 1 RAFVR), shot down on return flight after successful supply drop to Polish Home Army Partisans, in Warsaw, Poland, in Liberator B24J Mk VI #EV941
Additional
Information:
Son of John and Gladys Palmer, of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 Poland
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Cemetery:
 KRAKOW RAKOWICKI CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave 1. C. 4-5.

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