The story
Name: R C BURDEN
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 77610
Role: Observer under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 753 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Condor, Arbroath
Date of death: 1940-08-30
Aircraft: Shark
Place of death: RNAS Arbroath, Angus, Scotland
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: CHRISTCHURCH CEMETERY - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Section C (Uncons, New), Grave 13
Family details: Son of Reginald Stuart Burden and Dorothy Burden, of Bournemouth
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 77610
Role: Observer under training
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 753 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Condor, Arbroath
Date of death: 1940-08-30
Aircraft: Shark
Place of death: RNAS Arbroath, Angus, Scotland
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: CHRISTCHURCH CEMETERY - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Section C (Uncons, New), Grave 13
Family details: Son of Reginald Stuart Burden and Dorothy Burden, of Bournemouth
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