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Location
In Mount Joy Cemetery, Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight
Description
Standard EWGC headstone. WW II pattern.
Grave Location : D.1 566
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Headstone
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Inscription
653716 FLIGHT SERGEANT
T A GROSVENOR
WIRELESS OPERATOR / AIR GUNNER
ROYAL AIR FORCE
13TH JUNE 1941 AGE 21
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THOU WILL KEEP HIM
IN PERFECT PEACE
WHOSE MIND IS STAYED ON THEE
R.I.P.
Further Information
CWGC record ...
Flt Sgt Grosvenor was the son of James Alfred and Constance Florence Grosvenor, of Katihar, Bihar, India. It is not know what connection they
had with the Isle of Wight but their son was buried at Carisbrooke Cemetery.
The aircraft took off at 17.50 hrs from RAF Finningley on a night flying exercise, and on returning to base at 01:50 hrs was shot
down by a German night fighter in the landing circuit. The aircraft crashed 9 miles NNW of Retford, Nottingham. All the crew were killed.
Information provided by : John Bloodworth
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