The story
Name: L E BURSTON
Rank: Petty Officer Airman
Official number: FX 81310
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 881 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1941-12-21
Aircraft: Martlet
Place of death: North of Ardrossan
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: HASLAR ROYAL NAVAL CEMETERY - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Plot E, Row 59, Grave 21
Family details: Son of John and Olive Burston; husband of Ethel May Burston, of Bishopstoke, Eastleigh
Rank: Petty Officer Airman
Official number: FX 81310
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 881 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent
Date of death: 1941-12-21
Aircraft: Martlet
Place of death: North of Ardrossan
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: HASLAR ROYAL NAVAL CEMETERY - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Plot E, Row 59, Grave 21
Family details: Son of John and Olive Burston; husband of Ethel May Burston, of Bishopstoke, Eastleigh
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