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Sergeant Denis Wright Norman

1169618 217 Squadron W.Op/Air Gunner R A F Volunteer Reserve

Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Norman

Aged 28 years

Died 10th June 1942

Commemorated at Malta (Capuccini) Naval Cemetery
Plot F Communal Grave 4.
Evening Telegraph, Saturday, 13th June 1942, transcribed by John Collins.

Rushden Airman Killed

News was received by telegram on Friday that a Rushden Air-gunner, Sergt. Denis W. Norman, R.A.F., has lost his life in action in the Middle East. Sergt. Norman was the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Norman, of 5, King’s-road, Rushden, and his wife, whom he married about four years ago, is living with her father and mother at “The Chequers”, Higham Ferrers. Aged 28, Sergt. Norman was an Intermediate School old boy, and a keen sportsman, having taken an interest in cricket, tennis and football. A worshipper at the Baptist Church, Park-road, he had also played for their sports teams. Before joining up about two years ago he had been employed by Messrs. Tite and Garfirth, at Kettering and lived for a year in Windmill-avenue.

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