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Submitted: 9/23/15 • Approved: 4/7/21 • Last Updated: 4/10/21 • R90120-G0-S3
LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN
Royal Air Force Volunteer
England
August 21, 1923 - February 1, 1943
Casualty of WWII, Alan was a Leading 1394651 Aircraftman in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve ~ Service No:1394651.
He was 19 and the son of Arthur and Dorothy Langston of Purley, Surrey, England.
Alan was born in Hong Kong and died in Terrell, Texas
Inscription:
"He Willingly Served
His Country In The
Cause Of Freedom."
During night flying practice the aircraft taxied into a stock tank on the Terrell airfield and overturned. Langston drowned before help could arrive.{T.K.}
Contributed on 9/23/15 by tomannkill
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