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• Name MORRIS
• Initials BM
• First name BASIL MENZIES
• Place of birth Pembroke
• Country Ontario, Canada
• Family Son of James Lewis and Mary Menzies , of Pembroke, Ontario; a sister, Grace; a brother, Ramsey;
• Education University of Toronto, Bachelor of Applied Science
• Profession Civil engineer

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 4 Oct 1915, Brockville, Ontario
• Rank Lieutenant
• Regiment and unit 6th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
• Attached or transferred from 1st - Tunnelling Coy. - Canadian Engineers
• Other data related to military career Served in the 42nd Lanark and Renfrew Regiment, Canadian Militia, the 59th Bn and the 1st Canadian Tunneling Coy; serving with the RFC 6 Squadron when killed. Received his observer's wing in February 1917.

Death

• Wounded Artillery observation patrol, BE2d 6238 broke up on return; crashed and wrecked; Sgt WE Bastable, the pilot, was also killed (and buried in LMC)
• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Date of death 17 March 1917
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery X - A - 17

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