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NAME: Basten, John
RANK: Flying Officer
UNIT: Royal Air Force
BATTALION ETC: 623 Squadron
REGIMENTAL NUMBER: 134569
HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH: 24th August 1943
WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Runnymede Memorial, Surrey
OTHER INFORMATION: Age 21. Son of Harold Percy & Winifred Basten of Fishponds, Gloucestershire. In 1939 parents living at Queens Road, Lyndhyrst, Hampshire. From 1901 until her marriage in 1921 Winifred Basten (nee Sills) was living at 49 Angerstein Road, North End, Portsmouth.