Service Details
Name:
 PEARSE
Given Name:
 ALAN NEIL
Initials:
 A N
Service No:
 575535
Rank:
 Leading Aircraftman
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force
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Date of Death:
 1941-05-16
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Age:
 18
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Oxford I P1881, while on a test flight the aircraft began to break up starting with the elevator detaching from the aircraft. This resulted in a loss of control and the aircraft hitting the ground. W Cdr. F K Damant and passenger LAC AN Pearse were both killed in the incident
Additional
Information:
Son of Colonel Stanley Arthur Coxon Pearse and Ivy Pearse, of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Lincolnshire
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Cemetery:
 CRANWELL (ST. ANDREW) CHURCHYARD
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Grave Reference:
 Plot 2. Row B. Grave 18.

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