LEST WE FORGET

Sergeant Arthur Bolwell BURGESS

Service No: 402726
Born: Bathurst NSW, 20 May 1917
Enlisted in the RAAF: 14 October 1940
Unit: No. 457 Squadron
Died: Air Operations (No. 457 Squadron Spitfire aircraft), France, 4 April 1942, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Arthur Bolwell Burgess and Ruby Stuart Burgess, of Kelso, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 112, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 106, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, Bathurst NSW

On 4 April 1942, Sergeant Burgess flying Spitfire AB994 went missing on a Circus 119 in the vicinity of St Omer, France.

References:

Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
Franks Norman L R, Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 2, Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1942-1943, Midland Publishing Limited, Leicestershire UK, 1998
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/94/205
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line

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