Sergeant DESMOND RIVERSDALE ANTHONY BURGESS
Service Number: 1659085
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
159 Sqdn.
Date of Death
Died 29 February 1944
Age 19 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of James Jarvis Burgess, of Calstock, Cornwall and Ruth Dorothy Burgess, of Plymouth. This airman died with his eight crewmates. The individually unidentified remains of only seven of the crew are buried in Plot 4, Row E, Graves 14 to 20 of RANGOON WAR CEMETERY, Myanmar. Each grave marker reads: AN AIRMAN OF THE 1939-1945 WAR, ROYAL AIR FORCE, 29TH FEBRUARY 1944, KNOWN UNTO GOD. All nine men are commemorated by name on the SINGAPORE MEMORIAL.
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