Identity
Person No.
8242
Service No.
777859
Last Name
First Name
Basil Henry
Initials
B H
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
25
Military Service
Rank
Warrant Officer
Unit
Defence Force
Unknown
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Date of Death
Cause code
POW 1,365
Died as prisoner of war
Cause of Death
Died as a POW, shot down in Wellington Mk.111, lost on operation, from Snaith. Hit by Flak over the target, shot down by a night-fighter Fw Fritz Shellwat 5./NJG1 and crashed in a field near the hamlets of Kersbeek and Miskom (Brabant), 11 km NNE of Tienen, Belgium. Those killed in the crash are buried in Kersbeek-Miskom Churchyard. Sgt B. H. Glasse made a PoW. Sgt B. H. Glasse was interned in Camps 8B/344, PoW No.27141. Died 9 March 45 on The Forced March. No known grave
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Son of Walter and Eira Mary Glasse, of Essexvale, Southern Rhodesia. B.Sc.
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