LAC. Wallace Jackson in North Africa and Italy with 70 Squadron, RAF, 1941-1944
 

 

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 Sgt Percy Rutter, 1325173

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 Steve Rutter posted an enquiry on the contacts page concerning his uncle, Sgt Percy Robert Rutter, 1325173, who died died aged 27 on 20 March 1943 while serving with 70 Squadron, being commemorated at the Alamein Memorial: http://www.cwgc.org:80/search/certificate.aspx?casualty=1282437

We now have an image of Percy Rutter, thanks to Barbara Clarke, whose mother was Percy's niece.

Percy was born at Custom House, Essex,  in 1916.   He served as a rear gunner.

Barbara writes that he was a lover of jazz, especially Louis Armstrong, and played baseball at least once a week.

 

      

Percy marries Adelaide Hodges,  known to her friends as Cissie        

             

Percy was an active fan of baseball

 

     

Frank Lesley Clarke (rght),  Barbara Clarke's father-in-law, who served in Burma

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 . . . . . . a very young Percy Rutter

 

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