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Flight Lieutenant FRANK ERNEST THORNTON-BASSETT

Service Number: 89496
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 03 February 1943

Age 40 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BENGHAZI WAR CEMETERY

7. F. 6.

Libya

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Elizabeth Thornton-Bassett; husband of Mary Winifred Thornton-Bassett, of Ambleside, Westmorland.
  • Personal Inscription IN MEMORY. "HELD WE FALL TO RISE, ARE BAFFLED TO FIGHT BETTER, SLEEP TO WAKE"
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Buried or commemorated at

BENGHAZI WAR CEMETERY
Libya
Number of casualties: 1240
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