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Flying Officer BASIL Le BRETON SMITH

Service Number: 412525
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal New Zealand Air Force

30 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

Date of Death

Died 13 February 1943

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COLOMBO (KANATTE) GENERAL CEMETERY

Plot 6L. Row C. Grave 23.

Sri Lanka

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  • Country of Service New Zealand
  • Additional Info Son of Reginald and Alice Violet Smith. of Rotorua, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Buried or commemorated at

COLOMBO (KANATTE) GENERAL CEMETERY
Sri Lanka
Number of casualties: 385
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