Service Details
Name:
 MURRAY
Given Name:
 GORDON LAUTRE
Initials:
 G L
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force
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Unit:
 80th Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1918-04-12
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Date of Birth:
 1897-04-25
Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Sopwith Camel #B5154. He took off from his airfield at 3:30 PM on an offensive patrol over the Merville?Radinghem sector in northern France. The area was a chaotic frontline where British squadrons were flying low-altitude missions to halt advancing German ground troops and repel enemy fighter wings.
Additional
Information:
Son of the Rev. Andrew C. Murray and Lydie A. Murray, of Somerset West, South Africa. A Rhodes Scholar (Stellenbosh 1917) from South Africa to Oxford University.
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Pas de Calais
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Cemetery:
 ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL
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