DREW Basil Whitfield

  • First Name(s):
    Basil 
    Whitfield 
  • Surname:
    DREW
  • Service Number:
    177796
  • Rank:

    Lieutenant

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
  • Unit:
    Attached 12th (Airborne) Battalion Devonshire Regiment
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    2nd April 1945
  • Age At Death:
    24
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany, Grave 33. E. 10.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Alfred Edward Drew, and of Margaret Nichols Drew, of Deganwy, Caernarvonshire

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

DREW Basil Whitfield Is Named On These Memorials

Malvern College WW2 Memorial

Further Information About DREW Basil Whitfield

Basil Drew was born in 1920. He attended Malvern College from 1934 to 1939.

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