Notification of Andrew Bain's assumed death

Notification of Andrew Bain's assumed death

For official purposes, any serviceman missing on operations, assuming nothing more is heard over a set period, is assumed to have died so that pay, pensions etc can be processed.

1944-04-30

One typewritten letter

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[underlined] NOTIFICATION OF DEATH [/underlined]

CERTIFIED that according to the records of this department

No. 658930 Rank Sergeant
Name Andrew BAIN,
Service Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, was reported missing and is presumed, for official purposes, to have lost his life on the twenty-fourth day of August, 1943, as the result of air operations.

[signature] F/L
for Director of Personal Services.

Dated at the Air Ministry, London, this 30 day of April, 1944.