Service Details
Name:
 DE BRUYN
Given Name:
 DOUGLAS BAYLY
Initials:
 D B
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
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Former Regiment:
 and 35th Sqdn. Royal Flying Corps
Date of Death:
 1916-05-27
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Date of Birth:
 1895-07-11
Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Henry Farman 2850, while a passenger, spun off steep turn, at Thetford
Additional
Information:
Son of Daniel Pieter Arend de Bruyn and Olivia Mason de Bruyn. Of South Africa. His stepfather Henry Aubrey Rainier also died in service. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Cambridgeshire
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Cemetery:
 CAMBRIDGE CITY CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 A. 3805.

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