Cemetery: Les Baraques Military Cemetery Sangatte
Country: France
Area: Pas De Calais
Rank: Fourth Engineer Officer
Force: Mercantile Marine
Official Number:
Unit: S.S. British Sovereign .
Country of Service: British
Details: Died of injuries received through the ignition of benzol on the surface of Calais Harbour, 7th September 1918. Age 24. Son of Edward B. and Edith Agnes Bassett, of The Schoolhouse, Albert Rd., Shanklin, Isle of Wight. Native of Shanklin. V. E. 3.
Photograph by Terry Doyle / David Milborrow