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Flight Lieutenant

Percy William Burr

Service number 1582165
Military unit 227 Sqdn Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Address Unknown
Date of birth 22 Nov 1915
Date of death 11 Nov 1944 (28 years old)
Place of birth Birkenhead, Cheshire (Merseyside since 1974)
Employment, education or hobbies

Member of the Pharmaceutical Society

Family history

He was the son of Percy William and Margaret Ann Burr of 'Lyndhurst', 93, Harlaxton Drive, Lenton, Nottingham.

Military history

Becklingen War Cemetery Coll grave 27 E 3-7

Lancaster I PB643 was shot down by fighter returning from bombing an oil installation at Harburg near Hamburg. It crashed at Nieder Ochtenhausen. There were no survivors:

Burr (Fight Engineer)+

George William Bell, Douglas Leurensa Hann, Terence Dudley Hooper, Lawrence Melion Inman, Thomas Andrew Johnson and Thomas Reginald White.

Extra information

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