Sapper JOHN FRED BURNS
Service Number: 14621292
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Engineers
24 Bomb Disposal Coy.
Date of Death
Died 25 September 1944
Age 19 years old
Buried or commemorated at
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
Block "S". Plot 1. Row N. Grave 14.
France
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of Robert Martin Burns and Dorothy Alice Burns, of Greenock, Renfrewshire. His brother Robert Dennis also died on service.
- Personal Inscription HIS BROTHER ROBERT, R.A.F. WAS LOST ON ANTI-SUBMARINE OPERATIONS. 13-6-1944 AGE 21
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