The story
Name: B BASSETT
Rank: T/Acting Leading Airman (TY)
Official number: FX 89048
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 771 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Tern, Twatt
Date of death: 1942-09-18
Place of death: At sea, Scapa Flow
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: KIRKWALL (ST OLAF'S) CEMETERY - Orkney, Scotland
Commemoration details: Plot 33, Joint grave 3
Family details: Son of Benjamin and Margaret Bassett; husband of Edna Winifred Audrey Bassett, of Gloucester. Native of Middlesborough
Rank: T/Acting Leading Airman (TY)
Official number: FX 89048
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 771 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Tern, Twatt
Date of death: 1942-09-18
Place of death: At sea, Scapa Flow
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: KIRKWALL (ST OLAF'S) CEMETERY - Orkney, Scotland
Commemoration details: Plot 33, Joint grave 3
Family details: Son of Benjamin and Margaret Bassett; husband of Edna Winifred Audrey Bassett, of Gloucester. Native of Middlesborough
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