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Personal data

• Name FINCHAM
• Initials GEH
• First name GEORGE EDMUND HEYGATE
• Place of birth Guernsey
• Country Channel Islands
• Family Son of Lt. Col. G. H. Fincham (Royal Army Ordnance Dept.) and Mrs. Fincham, of London.
• Education College of Sacred Heart, Wimbledon
• Profession Mechanical Engineer
• Extra info Flying certificate taken on Maurice Farman Biplane, at Military School, Brooklands, 24 May 1915

Military service

• Rank Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 6th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
• Other data related to military career Captain and flight commander since February 1916;

Death

• Wounded near Kruisstraat, Ypres; artillery registration with 4181 BE2c, aerial combat with Fokker Eindekker, forced to land, crashed; Fincham was the pilot, he died in the field hospital; his observer, 2Lt Price, was killed outright (and is buried in Lijssenthoek)
• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Date of death 9 March 1916
• Died at the age of 25
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery V - A - 4

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