Service Details
Name:
 BECKER
Given Name:
 PHILIP AUGUST
Initials:
 P A
Service No:
 328419V
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 57 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-12-04
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Date of Birth:
 1922-01-17
Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Lancaster NG145, Airborne 16:30 on 4 Dec 1944 from East Kirkby to bomb a target in Heilbronn. Believed to have been shot down by a night fighter (at 19:33 by Oblt. Peter Spoden of II./NJG 6) and crashed at Oberstenfeld, 15 km SSE of Heilbronn.
Additional
Information:
Son of August Carl Otto and Alice Jane Elizabeth Becker, of Macleantown, Cape Province. Husband of Anne Becker, of "Thorn Park", King Williams' Town. Commemoration stone in Macleantown Cemetery.
Commemoration
Country:
 Germany
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Locality:
 Bad Tolz, Bayern
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Cemetery:
 DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 9. D. 16.

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