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Pilot Officer Michael Ludlow Davis

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Military service

Service number: J/86883
Age: 19
Rank: Pilot Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 159 (R.A.F.) Squadron
Birth: July 7, 1924 Rangoon, Burma
Enlistment: June 8, 1942 British Columbia
Death: February 29, 1944

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Plot 4, Row E,
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Son of Captain Herbert Ludlow and Olga Gwen Davis of Bombay, India. There is a seven-in-nine chance that Pilot Officer Davis lies in Rangoon War Cemetery, Myanmar. The individually unidentified remains of only seven of the nine crewmen from his bomber are buried there in Plot 4, Row E, Graves 14 to 20. Each grave marker reads: An Airman of the 1939-1945 War, Royal Air Force, 29th February 1944, Known unto God.

Pilot Officer Davis and his eight crew members are also commemorated by name on the Singapore Memorial, Singapore. Pilot Officer Davis is commemorated on column 443.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 287 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RANGOON WAR CEMETERY Myanmar

The cemetery is situated between Myienegone and Manthawaddy roundabout (close to the circle) and at the back of Burma Translation Society (Sarbaybeikmann). The entrance to the cemetery is down a lane facing east along PYI road (formerly Prome Road) some 8 kilometres from the port, 12 kilometres from the airport and 5 kilometres from the main railway station. There is no road direction sign to the cemetery, but Monasteries surround the cemetery on three sides.

A caretaker resides on site and the cemetery gates are open between 8am and 5 pm. Wheelchair access possible via main entrance.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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