Service Details
Name:
 BILSE
Given Name:
 DENIS OSWALD
Initials:
 D O
Service No:
 328283V
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 216 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-06-03
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Age:
 21
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Dakota III #FD866, aircraft was being flown on a routine courier sortie but after being airborne for 2.5 hrs it was some distance off track. It was climbing through cloud when it struck the side of a mountain at a height of 5,200 feet. The Board of Enquiry commented that the radio aids were not used to assist navigation but that the pilot, who had flown over 100 hrs in the previous month was probably fatigued.
Additional
Information:
Son of Oswald R. and Alice M. Bilse, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. On Jeppe High School for Boys Roll of Honour
Commemoration
Country:
 Algeria
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Cemetery:
 LE PETIT LAC CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Plot E. Row D. Grave 6.

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