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Serjeant HENRY PHILIP BURGESS

Service Number: 19135
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Flying Corps

18th Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 11 March 1917

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late Charles Long Edmund Burgess and Ann Maria Burgess; husband of Eleanor Mary Burgess, of 87, Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, London. The following words were written by the Officer Commanding 18th Squadron R.F.C.: "He was a sound pilot, and though the other four machines on his job all suffered except one the whole lot put up a splendid exhibition, and the job was completed.".

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