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EDWIN MICHAEL BRITTON (1)

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Edwin Michael BRITTON, Lieutenant Commander at Royal Naval Air Station at HMS Falcon. Died 21st June 1946 aged 26 at Malta - Lieutenant Commander Edwin Michael Britton RN (A) discharged dead.
Suffered multiple burns and injuries as the result of an aircraft accident at the Royal Naval Air Station at HMS FALCON on 3 June 1946. Son of Brigadier Edwin John James Britton CBE, DSO of the Royal Army Service Corps and Mary, nee Erwin. Husband of Pamela A.B. Britton, nee Jeans of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.

London Gazette dated 2 January 1945. Admiralty - For good services in air operations against the enemy in the Far East: Mentioned in Despatches. Acting Lieutenant-Commander Edwin Michael Britton, Royal Navy (Weybridge).

At rest in Capuccini (Kalkara) Naval Cemetery, Malta Plot E Grave 42
This is a photo from of a collection of photographs donated to Mi.Net belonging to Captain E.F Gueritz Royal Navy.

It would seem that this photo of the grave of Lt Commander Britton was taken some years before the picture posted by @28TH61ST+ONE

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