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Dispatched to the United Kingdom on 20 January 1942. He was commissioned on 22 April 1943. Died of injuries sustained in aircraft accident at Bamrauli airfield in India, which took the lives of ten other passengers and crew. Two were injured. The aircraft `FK.584 -was a Hudson VI twin-engine transport.
Pilot Officer Walsh is commemorated on the Vars Cenotaph 1939-45. The plaque inscription reads: 'They died that we might live'.
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In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 224 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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DELHI WAR CEMETERY India
DELHI WAR CEMETERY is about 11 kilometres from New Delhi, on the eastern outskirts of Delhi Cantonment and occupies a flat rectangular site adjoining the existing Cantonment Cemetery. It has an imposing entrance of Grey Dholpur Stone, within which is one part of the Dual Memorial to 25,000 men of the Army and Air Force of Undivided India who died during the 1939-45 War while on service in non-operational zones.
When visiting the DELHI WAR CEMETERY from New Delhi proceed to Delhi Cantonment via Sardar Patel Road to Dhaula Kuan roundabout, then continue along the ring road to Brar Square, over the level crossing, then continue for 1 kilometre along Cemetery Road, the cemetery is on the right hand side.
The first Commonwealth War Graves Commission direction sign is on the Dhaula Kuan roundabout and the second on Brar Square just before the railway crossing.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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