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Commonwealth War Graves Sagres

At the cemetery Sagres are two Commonwealth war graves from World War II.
These are the graves of:

Flight Sergeant George Tod Wright Gibson, 977499, age 23
Sergeant Gilbert Joseph Orton, 1495406, age 21.

Both were among the crew of a RAF Consilidated Catalina flying boat that crashed near Sagres on 22-3-1943. The bodies of the remaining crew members could not be recovered.

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Source

  • Text: TracesOfWar
  • Photos: Eugène Nelissen

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