RAF SPECIAL DUTIES Bathgate, James Robertson Grant

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Bathgate ​

• FORENAME

James Robertson Grant ​

• UNIT

161 Squadron (R.N.Z.A.F.) ​

• RANK

Flying Officer ​

• NUMBER

403932 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

11th December 1943 ​

• AGE

23 ​

• GRAVESITE

La Ville-aux-Bois British Cemetery,France 3.B.1A ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

son of George Thomas and Eleanor Isabella (nee Macnee) Bathgate,Outram,Otago,New Zealand​

husband of Dorothea Valentia Bathgate​

award D.F.C.​

pilot​

SOE Op.Sten,France​

Lysander V9673​

shot down by flak and crashed La Ville-aux-Bois-les-Pontavert,Aisne,France​

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passenger Capitaine Claudius Four also killed (see FRANCE Roll of Honour) ​