LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Edwin Ray BASSETT
Service No: 400268
Born: Castlemaine VIC, 13 August 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 18 August 1940
Unit: No. 457 Squadron
Died: Aircraft Accident (No. 457 Squadron Wirraway aircraft A20-40), Sackville NSW, 29 September 1942, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Sydney War Cemetery, NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Harold James Bassett and Annie Elizabeth Bassett, of Oakleigh, Victoria
Roll of Honour: Oakleigh VIC
Remembered: Panel 106, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1545 hours on 29 September 1942, Wirraway A20-40 hit wires while low flying and crashed into a river near Sackville. Both the crew members were killed.
The crew members of A20-40 were:
Flight Sergeant Edwin Ray Bassett (400268) (Pilot)
Sergeant Allan Martin Blackburn (401362) (Pilot, Supernumerary)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/90/394; A9845, 102