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Military service
Service number:
J/6712
Age:
26
Rank:
Flight Lieutenant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
58 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
Death:
April 26, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
B. I. 1.
Additional information
Son of Frederick and Ethel Burkitt, of Brandon, Manitoba.
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John Burkitt in the Hebrides, 1945 -
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Caption on back of photo: back row from left - Bagnell, Henderson, Jim Larkin, Stubbs; front row from left - John Liddell, Les Holden, Jack Burkitt, Tom Robson -
Grave Marker
With permission from http://home.no.net/thsord/ Aircraft Crash Research in Southern Norway, by Thomas Sordalen<P> Halifax JP330 #58 Sqdn was on an anti-shipping, anti-submarine mission out of Stornoway on April 25, 1945. The bomber is believed to have been attacked by german fighters in the Skagerrak, and lost without a trace. Details received from F/Lt. Holden's son, Paul Holden. RCAF Crew were: Bur. Churchyard at Mandal, Norway F/L (P) Ernest Leslie Holden age 22 F/L (2ndP) John Alan Burkitt age 26 Commemorasted n Runnymede Memorial to the Missing: F/L (N) Thomas Claude Robson age 26 F/O (AG) James Meyrick Larkin age 30 F/O (AG) ohn Raymond Liddell age 20 F/Sgt. (AG) Alan Francis Juby age 19 F/Sgt. (BA) Kenneth George William Henderson age 19 -
Churchyard Mandal Church, Norway
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Flight Lieutenant John Alan Burkitt
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Flight Lieutenant John Alan Burkitt
Digital gallery of
Flight Lieutenant John Alan Burkitt
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Flight Lieutenant John Alan Burkitt
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Commemorated on:
Page 500 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MANDAL CHURCHYARD Norway
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