The story
Name: H W V BURT
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 80195 (P/JX 142080)
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 825 Squadron, Detling
Ship/station: H.M.S. Kestrel, Worthy Down
Date of death: 1940-07-02
Aircraft: Swordfish L 2829, coded '5H'
Place of death: Near Schipol
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: AMSTERDAM NEW EASTERN CEMETERY - Noord-Holland
Commemoration details: Plot 69, Row A, Grave 14
Family details: Son of William Thomas Burt and Harriet Mary Burt, of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire
Rank: Acting Leading Airman
Official number: FX 80195 (P/JX 142080)
Role: Air Gunner 3rd Class
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 825 Squadron, Detling
Ship/station: H.M.S. Kestrel, Worthy Down
Date of death: 1940-07-02
Aircraft: Swordfish L 2829, coded '5H'
Place of death: Near Schipol
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: AMSTERDAM NEW EASTERN CEMETERY - Noord-Holland
Commemoration details: Plot 69, Row A, Grave 14
Family details: Son of William Thomas Burt and Harriet Mary Burt, of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire
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