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Location
In Mount Joy Cemetery, Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight
Description
Standard CWGC 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. His birth was registered in Stourbridge, Lancashire, in Mar 1921 qtr.
It is not known what connection the family
had with the Isle of Wight but their son was buried at Carisbrooke Cemetery. He is commemorated at the Trafford Park War Memorial.
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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