Service Details
Name:
 LOVE
Given Name:
 WILFRED ROYCE
Initials:
 W R
Service No:
 710122
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Flight Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 266 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-08-17
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Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Typhoon Mk.Ib MN680, airborne on 17 Aug 1944 from ALG Sommervieu (B.8) on ground support mission to close Falaise Gap near Livarot. Aircraft shot down by enemy aircraft (Fw190 of JG 2) and crashed at Ste-Marguerite-des-Loges, 9 km N of Vimoutiers.
Additional
Information:
Son of John and Hilda Violet Love, of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. King's Scout. Royce Love's cousin, Owen Love, is buried in an adjoining grave. Owen was one of the Rhodesian Air Force Pilots assigned to the ferrying of new Spitfires from England to Rhodesia in 1951. By a cruel stroke of fate his aircraft developed some failure while flying over France and crashed. Owen is buried alongside Royce.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Calvados
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Cemetery:
 STE. MARGUERITE-DES-LOGES CHURCHYARD
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Grave Reference:
 Sec. G. Row 4. Grave 287.

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