In Memory Of
PITT, WILLIAM GEORGE ALEXANDER
Service Details
Age:
30
Date of Birth:
-0001-11-30
Service No:
206450V
Rank:
Lieutenant
Unit:
34 Sqdn.
Regiment:
South African Air Force
Date of Death:
1944-11-23
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
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Coll. grave IV. E. 1-7.
Cemetery:
BUDAPEST WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Hungary
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.
