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Sergeant ALAN BURNS

Service Number: 924900
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

115 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 26 March 1942

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WARNSVELD (WICHMOND) GENERAL CEMETERY

Plot E. Grave 5.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Armstrong Burns and Emily Clayton Burns; husband of Valerie Joan Burns, of Slough, Buckinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN TO LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY
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Buried or commemorated at

WARNSVELD (WICHMOND) GENERAL CEMETERY
Gelderland Netherlands
Number of casualties: 13
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