 It is also possible that Wing Commander Harry Broadhurst could have made a head-on attack on his Messerschmitt, receiving severe punishment himself and crash-landing his Spitfire at Hornchurch wrecking it off.Balthasar was posthumously promoted to the rank of "Major" and buried at a World War I cemetery in Flanders alongside his father at Illies.His former "Gymnasium", the , an advanced secondary school in Fulda, was named the "Wilhelm-Balthasar-Schule" in 1942 and carried this name until the end of World War II.