Basil Victor Hennesy Tweedie
Attended Queen Elizabeth School from 1930 to 1933
Basil is also remembered on the Nottingham Rugby memorial
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The son of Dr Norman Claude Basil Lancelot and Lily Marion Marguerite Mclaglen Tweedie of Annesley House, Alexandria Avenue, Mansfield. Norman was a well respected doctor in the area, moving to Mansfield in 1919 from Belfast. Lily was the sister of the famous American actor Victor McLaglen and Victor often visited her and was known to drink at the Ravensdale pub. Norman had met Victor whilst he was serving has a surgeon during WW1 and he is mentioned in Victor's autobiography.
Siblings: Marion (1920), Ivan (1925) and Eric (1930)
The last letter received by the Hon Secretary of the Service Fund Committee from Basil on 24th March 1942 contained the following passage
"I've been very lucky indeed during my operational flying with 250 sqdn. I was shot down in the desert once and was missing for 4 days, but after 40 mile walk in the sand storm I eventually reached some sort of civilisation and was returned to my squadron by South African Infantry.
Sometime this month I'm going up for my commission interview and medical , so by the time you receive this letter I hope to be a Pilot Officer.
He was part of a Pathway Squadron based at Aquir supporting the 8th Army.
He was flying a Kittyhawk (serial No AL111) on an operational flight over Demartino, Libya when he failed to return.
He is remembered on the Alamein Memorial col 249.
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