Service Details
Name:
 LOXTON
Given Name:
 BERNARD THOMAS
Initials:
 B T
Service No:
 329109V
Trade:
 Obs.
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 31 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-08-17
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Date of Birth:
 1912-04-11
Age:
 32
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Liberator B24J Mk VI #EW248, 8 crew (1 RAF), exploded in mid-air over Warsaw, Poland while dropping supplies to Polish Home Army Partisans, in Warsaw, Poland
Additional
Information:
Son of Henry James Pirrie and Catherine (nee Brown) Loxton, of.P.O. Grabouw, Cape Province. Husband of Leonore Alice Helen (nee Litchfield) Loxton, of Isipingo Beach, South Coast, Natal. Born Lennoxtown, Newscastle, Natal. A clerk. His brother-in-law Edwin Giles Litchfield also died in service in WWII. Commemorated on on the Isipingo Beach WWII Memorial in Athlone Park Library, Amanzimtoti, Kwazulu Natal
Commemoration
Country:
 Poland
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Cemetery:
 KRAKOW RAKOWICKI CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 1. B. 6.

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