Service Details
Name:
 AUSTIN
Given Name:
 WILLIAM HENRY
Initials:
 W H
Service No:
 778987
Trade:
 Air Gnr.
Rank:
 Flight Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 103 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1943-08-23
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Age:
 32
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Lancaster ED701, shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Heinz Struning of the 3./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110 G-4 or He 219 A-0 from Venlo airfield
Additional
Information:
Son of William and Netta Austin, of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia.
Commemoration
Country:
 Netherlands
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Cemetery:
 JONKERBOS WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 16. B. 5.

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