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Pilot Officer William Mead Lindsley Fiske

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Military service

Service number: 78092
Age: 29
Rank: Pilot Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: royal air force
Division: 601 Sqdn.
Birth: June 4, 1911 Chicago
Death: August 17, 1940

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BOXGROVE (SS. MARY AND BLAISE) CHURCHYARD
Grave reference: Sec. F. Grave 2.
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Son of William Mead Lindsley and Beulah Fiske II. He was educated at Cambridge. He piloted the US Olympic bobsled team to gold medals in 1928 and 1932. In 1938, he married Rose Bingham, the former Countess of Warwick. He lost his life in air combat over the southern part of England on August 17, 1940, during the height of the Battle of Britain.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

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Page 603 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BOXGROVE (SS. MARY AND BLAISE) CHURCHYARD Sussex, United Kingdom

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