In Memory Of

PASSMORE, MAURICE

Service Details
Age:
 23
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 116910
Rank:
 Flight Lieutenant
Unit:
 148 Sqdn.
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
 1943-11-04
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.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave 3. D. 1-7.
Cemetery:
 BELGRADE WAR CEMETERY
Country:
 Serbia & Montenegro
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