Name
Basil Graham Homfray Keymer (DFC and Bar)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/10/1919
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Royal Air Force
Attached Sierra Leone Carrier Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar Croce di Guerra (Italy)
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HAIDAR PASHA MEMORIAL
Screen Wall. Panel 8.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 30 Mar 1899 and baptised on 13 Apr 1899 in Birkenshaw, West Yorkshire son of Rev. Basil Nathaniel and Ethel (Homfray) Keymer later of Gosbeck Rectory, Ipswich. Educated at Haileybury College 1913-16 and RAF Cranwell.
Wartime Service
Received his Flying Certificate on 8 Sep 1916 and entered RAF Cranwell on 29 Apr 1917 as a Probationary Flying Officer. He was killed in action in Russia and is known to be buried in Krasnodar Cemetery, Krasnodar, Russia but his grave was lost.
Additional Information
After WW1 was ended a number of British Forces were sent to Russia to assist in the Russian Civil War.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
