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Military service
Service number:
J/21807
Age:
28
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Birth:
January 22, 1916
Stratford, Ontario
Enlistment:
February 23, 1942
London, Ontario
Death:
July 5, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
52. B. 2.
Additional information
Son of Arthur Tom and Pearl Burston; husband of Ella Victoria Burston, of London, Ontario.
Brother of Flight Lieutenant Frank Lorne Burston, who died while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Glen Richard Burston
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Document
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Glen Burston
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Biography
From the research work done by Margaret Rose Gaunt and submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Photo of Glen Burston
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Memorial
Flying Officer Glen Richard Burston is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Glen Richard Burston is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of GLEN RICHARD BURSTON
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star July 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Glen Richard Burston
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Glen Richard Burston
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Glen Richard Burston
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Glen Richard Burston
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Glen Richard Burston
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Glen Richard Burston
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Glen Richard Burston
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Glen Richard Burston
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Glen Richard Burston
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 263 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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