Paul was a Leading Airman in the Royal Navy-H.M.S. Goshawk ~Service No:FAA/FX 95958.He was 18. The aircraft in which he was travelling crash-landed on the Paria Peninsular, Venezuela, South America, on November 16, 1943. At the time, his remains could not be found and therefore, for many years he was commemorated as ‘missing’ on the Fleet Air Arm Memorial, Lee-on-Solent.
The wreckage and his remains were recovered in 1972 and he was interred in Caracas Southern General Cemetery and his grave is marked by a CWGC pedestal Marker
His brother, Lieutenant Kenneth Harper Brade , Service No:267944, aged 22, also died on service.He served with the Royal Engineers and rests in Assisi War Cemetery, Italy.
They were sons of Robert Harper Brade and Marie Louise Brade [nee Dalby] of Streatham,South London.
The wreckage and his remains were recovered in 1972 and he was interred in Caracas Southern General Cemetery and his grave is marked by a CWGC pedestal Marker
His brother, Lieutenant Kenneth Harper Brade , Service No:267944, aged 22, also died on service.He served with the Royal Engineers and rests in Assisi War Cemetery, Italy.
They were sons of Robert Harper Brade and Marie Louise Brade [nee Dalby] of Streatham,South London.
Paul was a Leading Airman in the Royal Navy-H.M.S. Goshawk ~Service No:FAA/FX 95958.He was 18. The aircraft in which he was travelling crash-landed on the Paria Peninsular, Venezuela, South America, on November 16, 1943. At the time, his remains could not be found and therefore, for many years he was commemorated as ‘missing’ on the Fleet Air Arm Memorial, Lee-on-Solent.
The wreckage and his remains were recovered in 1972 and he was interred in Caracas Southern General Cemetery and his grave is marked by a CWGC pedestal Marker
His brother, Lieutenant Kenneth Harper Brade , Service No:267944, aged 22, also died on service.He served with the Royal Engineers and rests in Assisi War Cemetery, Italy.
They were sons of Robert Harper Brade and Marie Louise Brade [nee Dalby] of Streatham,South London.
The wreckage and his remains were recovered in 1972 and he was interred in Caracas Southern General Cemetery and his grave is marked by a CWGC pedestal Marker
His brother, Lieutenant Kenneth Harper Brade , Service No:267944, aged 22, also died on service.He served with the Royal Engineers and rests in Assisi War Cemetery, Italy.
They were sons of Robert Harper Brade and Marie Louise Brade [nee Dalby] of Streatham,South London.
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As at April 2015, CWGC is working with the local British Embassy to attempt to improve the grave site of this casualty.
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