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Military service
Service number:
J/25377
Age:
28
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
166 Sqdn.
Birth:
September 20, 1916
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
March 19, 1942
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
October 26, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 245.
Additional information
Son of Eugene Clarence and Nell (nee Wakeman) Burton, of Toronto Ontario.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer James Roberts Burton
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Newspaper Clipping
Source: Globe and Mail December 4, 1944 -
Memorial
Inscription - Runnymede Memorial - April 2017 … 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 -
Memorial
Flying Officer James Roberts Burton is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer James Roberts Burton is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of JAMES ROBERTS BURTON
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star November 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star November 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram November 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James Roberts Burton
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James Roberts Burton
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James Roberts Burton
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James Roberts Burton
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James Roberts Burton
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James Roberts Burton
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James Roberts Burton
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James Roberts Burton
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer James Roberts Burton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 264 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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