Service Details
Name:
 WHITAKER
Given Name:
 MAURICE EDWARD
Initials:
 M E
Service No:
 P/102886
Rank:
 Lieutenant Colonel
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Date of Death:
 1943-03-16
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Age:
 47
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, lost in the Empress of Canada which was torpedoed by the Italian Submarine Leonardo Da Vinci en route from Durban to Takoradi
Additional
Information:
Son of Frederick and Louise M. Whitaker; husband of Enid Kate Whitaker, of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. Born England
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Column 277.

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