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Sgt. Pilot. John Gilbert Burge

Army Air Corps Glider Pilot Regiment

from:Isleworth, Middlesex

(d.25th Sep 1944)

John Burge was a member of the Metropolitan Police but volunteered to join the Glider Pilot Regiment AAC and train as a Glider Pilot. He took part in Operation Market Garden (Arnhem), taking off from Tarrant Rushton in a Horsa Glider towed by a Halifax (Chalk No. 379). He was killed in action aged 25 on 25th of September 1944 age 25 years and is remembered on the Groesbeek Memorial in The Netherlands.



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