Service Details
Name:
 PASSMORE
Given Name:
 MAURICE
Initials:
 M
Service No:
 116910
Rank:
 Flight Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 148 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1943-11-04
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Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Liberator AL509, aircraft took off from its Libyan base for a night mission to drop supplies for the Yugoslav partisans. Aircraft struck a hilltop four miles north of Kosinjski Zamost, 60 miles southeast of Fiume, on Adriatic coast of Croatia. All seven crew were killed.
Additional
Information:
Son of Frank and Frances E. R. G. Passmore, of Blackheath, London; husband of Eileen (previously Garner, nee Duffy) Passmore. Born England. Educated Sacred Heart College, Marist Brothers Observatory, Johannesburg; King's School. Rochester, Kent, England 1930-1936. A clerk. Commemorated on the King's School, Rochester WWII Memorial inside the Lady Chapel of Rochester Cathedral; also listed on the Sacred Heart College, Marist Brothers Observatory, Johannesburg WWII ROH in the 1944 year book
Commemoration
Country:
 Serbia & Montenegro
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Cemetery:
 BELGRADE WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave 3. D. 1-7.

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