J R BLACK — Fleet Air Arm

Name: J R BLACK
Rank: Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNZNVR
Squadron: 1839 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Bherunda, Columbo Racecourse, Ceylon
Date of death: 1944-07-07
Aircraft: Hellcat I FN 444
Place of death: At sea, West of Columbo
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: NEW ZEALAND NAVAL MEMORIAL, DEVONPORT, AUCKLAND, North Shore City
Commemoration details: Panel 8
Family details: Son of John and Johanna Black (nee Ross), of Middlemarch, Otago, New Zealand

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