Service Details
Name:
 MASSON
Given Name:
 JOHN BLENNERHASSET
Initials:
 J B
Service No:
 103809V
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 34 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1945-03-05
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Date of Death 2:
 1945-03-06
Age:
 31
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Liberator B.VI KH150, 8 crew (1 RAF and 1 RAFVR), shot down while the marshalling yards at Graz, Austria
Additional
Information:
Son of Robert Hopkins and Muriel Emmeline Masson, of Somerset East. Husband of Ruda Francois Masson, of Harrismith. Born Butterworth. An attorney. His brother also died in service. On Harrismith War Memorial, Free State
Commemoration
Country:
 Italy
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Cemetery:
 UDINE WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave IV. B. 13-15.

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