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Inscription
Also to the memory of my only son
Robert Oliver Stewart Selwyn
Who was missing on active service while
Serving as a Pilot in the Royal Air Force
On August 4 1943
Father in thy gracious keeping
leave we now thy servant's sleeping
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Bromyard Cemetery
Herefordshire
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Robert Oliver Steward
Selwyn
24th December 1914
Newent, Gloucestershire
4th August 1943
202 Squadron Coastal Command Ferry flight Catalina FP 114 went missing from Castle Archdale, Lough Erne to Gibraltar with all on board missing presumed dead. The plane was lost without trace.
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Runnymede Memorial, Surrey
Second World War
Sergeant
202 Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
This headstone has become detached and is lying haphazardly against another headstone
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