Harold Edwin Burton
Service number
815216
Military unit
19 BDU Royal Air Force (Auxiliary Air Force)
Address
Unknown
Date of birth
Date of death
22 Jun 1941 (24 years old)
Place of birth
Unknown
Employment, education or hobbies
Unknown
- Family History
- Military history
- Extra information
- Photographs
Family history
Lived at 88 Front St., Arnold [e.1939]. Son of George Edwin & Eliza Burton (d.1924), of the same address [e.1939 & 45]. The family lived in Lenton until 1927 when his father married Violet Atherley [Basford.m.1927] and the Burtons went to live with her in Arnold. Harold Edwin Burton's death is recorded on the Burton family grave in Lenton churchyard.
Military history
Interred Redhill Cemetery, Arnold.
He was killed inspecting a bomb at Aldergrove, Northern Ireland.
Extra information
Unknown
Photographs
Harold Edwin Burton is interred at Arnold but he is commemorated on the horizontal stonework of his family grave (shown here) at Lenton churchyard.
Photo: The Lenton Times (LT 27, page 20)
Photo of Harold Edwin Burton headstone
CWGC headstone by Tracy Dodds