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Flight Lieutenant BASIL GORDON COLLYNS

Service Number: 391342
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal New Zealand Air Force

19 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 20 August 1944

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VILLENEUVE-ST. GEORGES OLD COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Grave 93.

France

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Awards Distinguished Flying Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Guy Shuckburgh Collyns and Jean Collyns; husband of Margaret Lucy Collyns, of Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand.
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