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Sergeant BASIL HAROLD BURSON

Service Number: 1320237
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Date of Death

Died 22 February 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OXFORD (BOTLEY) CEMETERY

Plot I/2. Grave 162.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edwin Thomas Burson and Helen Myles Burson, of Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription DEATH CANNOT COME TO HIM UNTIMELY WHO IS FIT TO DIE
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Buried or commemorated at

OXFORD (BOTLEY) CEMETERY
Oxfordshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 743
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