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Military service
Service number:
J/85620
Age:
28
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
578 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
Death:
March 24, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
5. B. 29.
Additional information
Son of Lancelot Cyril and Amy Matilda Burch, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Digital gallery of Pilot Officer Roy Victor Burch
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Roy was based at Burn near Selby North Yorkshire England.<P> Roy flew the Halifax B MK III Bomber and was among 15 crews who attacked Berlin on the 24/09/1944.<P> His and two other Halifax's were lost that evening with a total of 18 men lost.<P> From January 1944 Roy had taken part in the following raids: Berlin x 4,the Bosch factory in Stuttgart x 2 Frankfurt x 2, and 1 each on Magdeburg and Leipzig.<P> Dave Morris Tadcaster England -
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Pilot Officer Roy Victor Burch is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Pilot Officer Roy Victor Burch is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Roy Victor Burch
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Roy Victor Burch
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Roy Victor Burch
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Roy Victor Burch
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer Roy Victor Burch
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 262 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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