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Flight Sergeant FRANCIS WILLIAM BURNS

Service Number: 747886
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 18 March 1942

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KHARTOUM WAR CEMETERY

8. B. 8.

Sudan

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Ella Lilian Burns; husband of Edna Maud Burns, of Derby.
  • Personal Inscription ALWAYS REMEMBERED
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Buried or commemorated at

KHARTOUM WAR CEMETERY
Sudan
Number of casualties: 842
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