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Individual Record
Inscription
In loving and everlasting
Remembrance of
F/O A. Dennis Serpell Snell
Aged 21
Bomber Command
Missing from operations over Italy
July 14th/15th 1943. Beloved son of
Arthur and Frances Mary Snell.
At the going down of the sun
And in the morning, we will remember them
Plaque on headstone (now missing its cross)
Place of Inscription
St Peter Peterstow
Herefordshire
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Albert Dennis Serpell
Snell
1922
Overseas (Gibraltar?)
16th July 1943
Took off from RAF Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire to bomb electrical transformers in Reggio Nell’Emilia, Lombardy, Italy in Lancaster B. Mk. III DV167 which is believed to have crashed near Traversetolo, Parma - three crew were buried nearby and then at Milan, the other crew were lost in the crash including Dennis Snell
21
Runnymede Memorial, Surrey
Second World War
Flying Officer
50 Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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