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BASSETT, Edwin Ray
Personal Details
Service Number: | 400268 |
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Enlisted: | 18 August 1940 |
Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
Last Unit: | No. 457 Squadron (RAAF) |
Born: | Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia, 13 August 1921 |
Home Town: | Oakleigh, Monash, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Accidental (Flying Accident), Sackville Beach, New South Wales, Australia, Sackville Beach, Sackville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 29 September 1942, aged 21 years |
Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales A B 13, Sydney War Cemetery, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
Service History
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Flight Sergeant, 400268 | |
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18 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 400268, No. 457 Squadron (RAAF) |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
Wirraway aircraft A20-40 from Number 457 Squadron crashed near Sackville, NSW killing Flight Sergeant Edwin Ray Bassett 400268 (Sydney War Cemetery) and Sergeant Allan Martin Blackburn 401362 (Brighton Cemetery, Victoria)