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Sergeant Ronald Tait Batchen

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Military service

Service number: 1365683
Age: 21
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Division: 115 Sqdn.
Death: May 11, 1942

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MARHAM CEMETERY
Grave reference: War Graves Plot. Grave 17.
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Son of Elizabeth (née Bushman) and William Tait Batchen of Rouleau, Saskatchewan. William Tait Batchen was born in Peebles, Scotland and married Elizabeth in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He started a law practice. They had three children, a daughter, Frances who become a concert pianist in New York, Ronald and his brother, Sergeant Alexander George Batchen, died on September 12, 1941 at age 20, while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He was the eldest of the children.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

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Page 615 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MARHAM CEMETERY Norfolk, United Kingdom

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