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Captain BASIL WILLIAM HINGSTON

Service Number: CDN/535
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Canadian Infantry Corps

Date of Death

Died 19 September 1944

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

23. A. 5.

Netherlands

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 2nd (Airborne) Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Basil and Berthe Hingston, of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada; husband of Dorothy Bernice Hingston, of Montreal.
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Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 1770
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