Service Details
Name:
 GRITTEN
Given Name:
 RICHARD ERROL
Initials:
 R E
Service No:
 581885V
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 27 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1945-04-17
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Age:
 21
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, spun into ground during fighter affiliation near Gianaclis, in Vickers Warwick Mk V #PN754
Additional
Information:
Son of Walter C. Gritten and Ivy Gritten, of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 O. 171.

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