A.D.M.Gunn,Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.Great Escape

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Casualty
Flight Lieutenant (Pilot) GUNN, ALASTAIR DONALD MACKINTOSH
Service Number 60340
Died 06/04/1944
Aged 24
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Twice Mentioned in Despatches
Son of James Turner Gunn, F.R.C.S., M.B., Ch.B., and Adelaide Lucy Frances Gunn, of Auchterarder, Perthshire.
INSCRIPTION: MAY HE REST IN THY PEACE AND AWAKE TO A JOYFUL RESURRECTION
Buried at POZNAN OLD GARRISON CEMETERY
Location: Poland
Number of casualties: 448
Cemetery/memorial reference: 8. D. 7.

See cemetery plan