Service Details
Name:
 PITT
Given Name:
 WILLIAM GEORGE ALEXANDER
Initials:
 W G A
Service No:
 206450V
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 34 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-11-23
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Age:
 30
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, 8 crew (2 RAF & 3 RAFVR), shot down while bombing the marshalling yards at Szombathely, Hungary, in Liberator B24J Mk VI #KH204
Additional
Information:
Son of Alexander and Mina Gordon Pitt, of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. Born Sea Point, Cape Town. Manager of Banlie Press. Commemoration stone in Cape Town (Maitland) Cemetery. His brother G. B. Pitt also died on service.
Commemoration
Country:
 Hungary
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Cemetery:
 BUDAPEST WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave IV. E. 1-7.

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