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            <text>Luther and Lelia Ironmonger</text>
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        <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
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            <text>Joined the British Royal Flying Corps on 12 January 1918. According to his RFC service record, Ironmonger had three training crashes in Avros, the last after the end of the war. </text>
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        <name>1927 "Virginia Polytehnic Institute in the World War" booklet</name>
        <description>Did this individual appear in the 1927 booklet "Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the World War"? If so what page?</description>
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            <text>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;UK, RAF Officer Service Records, 1918-1919 for James Williard Ironmonger&lt;/li&gt;
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