{"id":288,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=288"},"modified":"2021-03-30T10:53:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T10:53:25","slug":"brodie-basil-hubert","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/brodie-basil-hubert\/","title":{"rendered":"Brodie, Basil Hubert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Flight Engineer, 619 Squadron
Service number 1862111
Died 6 November 1944
Commemorated on Runnymede Memorial
Age 20<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Basil was the son of Harry and Florence n\u00e9e Greenbaum of Haringey, London and had a brother Raymond and twin sisters Betty and Enid. Their grandfather Baruch was born in Warsaw and worked as a Master cabinet maker in Spitalfields. Their father Harry was the youngest of seven children who lived in Hackney and he worked as a drapery salesman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
By 1939, the family had moved to 329 Green Lanes, Tottenham where they ran an off licence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Basil was the flight engineer of Lancaster NN723 which departed RAF Strubby at 16.31 on a night operation to attack the Dortmund-Ems and Mitteland canal system at Gravenhorst. The aircraft crashed in the North Sea killing all the crew. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Edward Stanley Bicknell, 1893452
James Arthur Harrison, 1582271
Robert John Hogg, 2211120
Leslie Kennedy, 1784070
Clifford Keith Morton, 1575470
John Layard Butler Webster, 188178<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n