Wilfred Gordon BURROWS

BURROWS, Wilfred Gordon

Service Number: 411739
Enlisted: 25 May 1941
Last Rank: Pilot Officer
Last Unit: No. 12 Squadron (RAAF)
Born: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 May 1917
Home Town: Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Clerk
Died: Flying Battle, North West Europe, 18 January 1943, aged 25 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Runnymede Memorial Englefield Green, Surrey, England Panel 190
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Runnymede Air Forces Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Pilot Officer, 411739
25 May 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 411739, No. 12 Squadron (RAAF)

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Wilfred Gordon BURROWS was born in Melbourne, Victoria on 2nd May, 1917

His parents were William BURROWS & Phyllis Mabel SHEPPARD who married in Victoria in 1915

He married Jean Ethel RADFORD in Sydney in 1940

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His wife served in the RAAF (SN 97557) as Jean Mabel BURROWS and was discharged in 1946 (WAAF)