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Flying Officer THOMAS GEORGE BASSETT

Service Number: 40781
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 12 May 1940

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MAASTRICHT GENERAL CEMETERY

Row 3. Joint grave 142-143.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John Leonard and Lena Bassett, of Te Kopuru, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Personal Inscription HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE. HE DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY, NEW ZEALAND
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Buried or commemorated at

MAASTRICHT GENERAL CEMETERY
Limburg (Netherlands) Netherlands
Number of casualties: 38
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