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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.