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Flight Sergeant ARTHUR ROBERT BURN

Service Number: 1319428
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

159 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 29 February 1944

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

Column 434.

Singapore

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry John and Margaret Emily Burn, of Ealing, Middlesex. This airman died with his eight crewmates. The individually unidentified remains of only seven of the crew are buried in Plot 4, Row E, Graves 14 to 20 of RANGOON WAR CEMETERY, Myanmar. Each grave marker reads: AN AIRMAN OF THE 1939-1945 WAR, ROYAL AIR FORCE, 29TH FEBRUARY 1944, KNOWN UNTO GOD. All nine men are commemorated by name on the SINGAPORE MEMORIAL.
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