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Military service
Service number:
J/88715
Age:
22
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
439 Sqdn.
Birth:
April 4, 1923
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Enlistment:
August 6, 1941
Moncton, New Brunswick
Death:
May 3, 1945
Elmshorm near Hamburg Line, Germany
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 278.
Additional information
Son of Edward E. and Myrtle M. (nee Hoyt) Burden, of Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Air Crew Europe Star, France and GemanyStar, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer George Franklin Burden
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Frederiction War Memorial
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Inscription
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Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of George Franklin Burden
From Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa -
Document
Crash report from Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa.
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Franklin Burden
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Franklin Burden
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Franklin Burden
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Franklin Burden
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer George Franklin Burden
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 500 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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