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Personal data

• Name WORSTENHOLM
• Initials J
• First name JOHN
• Family The observer, Lt Frank L.McCreary, survived the fight and brought the plane back to base.
• Education Darlington Grammar School
  Cambridge University

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment December 1916
• Rank Second Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 6th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
• Other data related to military career He joined the Artists' Rifles and four months later was transferred to the R.F.C. He had only been at the front for five weeks.
  

Death

• Wounded Contact patrol; combat with enemy aircraft Albatros DV scout; shot up; the RE8 A4216 landed in the trees, wrecked; his observer, Lt FL McCreary flew back and attempted landing but spun in.
• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Date of death 25 September 1917
• Died at the age of 19
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXIII - C - 20

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