Can anyone please let me know the circumstances surrounding the above named officer being sent for a prolonged spell of recuperation between January 1942 and May 1943. At the time he was serving as C Flight Commander with No.408 RCAF Squadron.
Thanks in advance.
Steve
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No.218 (Gold Coast) Squadron Association Historian
Operation: Hamburg 15th January 1942 - 16th January 1942
"Serial Range AE352 - AE401. 45 HP52 Hampden Mk.B.1. Part of a batch of 425 Hampden B.1. AD719-AD768; AD782-AD806; AD824- AD873; AD895-AD939; AD959-AD988; AE115-AE159; AE184-AE203; AE218- AE267; AE286-AE320; AE352-AE401; AE418-AE442. Delivered by The English Electric Co.(Preston) between Oct40 and Oct41. AD743; AD908; AD977; AE194; AE231; AE307; AE310; AE363 were converted to Hampden TB (Torpedo Bomber) and transfereed to the USSR. AE393 was initially issued to No.44 Sqdn, also served with 420 Sqdn before joining 408 Sqdn. Airborne 1715 15Jan42 from Balderton. Ran out of fuel and crashed 0300 16Jan42, at Dalefoot, West Burton, 13 miles SW of Catterick, Yorkshire. S/L Burnett RCAF was admitted to the Military Hospital at Catterick. S/L W.J.Burnett DFC RCAF Inj F/S J.A.Bunting KIA Sgt J.R.Appleby KIA Sgt M.Jones KIA "
Posted in to 138sqdn on 9th May 44, 40076 Sqdn/Ldr W.J. Burnett, from 3 Group HQ. This is the same person as the one in question. If you Google "Wilfred Jasper Burnett" you will get a hit for his obituary in The Telegraph, which includes all the details of hs career
Alan
-- Edited by AW on Friday 9th of September 2011 04:16:58 AM
I thought i recognised the name as i have his signature in a 138 log book casualty...very distinctive......also a couple of months ago there was a log book on Ebay in which i noticed the same signature.....from 1953 i think?.....sadly another casualty....lost control? in a meteor over the runway at......'syerston?'......dont quote me on that!....V.D. Pedley.....wish i had bid on it now....interesting link between the two logs....
