Lt PA Becker
1943 secondees killed
- Rank
- Lt
- 1943 voyage
- Sailed from Cape Town on the Rangitata in September 1943.
- Fate
- Killed in action, 5 December 1944
- In the book
- Pages 104
From the book
The Dreaded Telegram
Four Bomber Command aircrew with South African connections lost their lives in early December 1944 after 12 Lancasters failed to return from the Heilbron Raid. Casualties included seconded SAAF pilots Captain GW Hirschfield and Lt PA Becker from the “Rangitata” group while 34 -year-old Rhodesian born NT Deacon whose father was South African and 19-year-old Adrian Ruyseh Roselt from Johannesburg 37 who were members of Becker’s crew, joined the RAFVR in Rhodesia.