Name
Basil Harold Burson
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
22/02/1944
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
1320237
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
OXFORD (BOTLEY) CEMETERY
Plot I/2. Grave 162.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
DEATH CANNOT COME TO HIM UNTIMELY WHO IS FIT TO DIE
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
His Service Number was 1320237 and he was an Air Bomber at the 42 Operational Training Unit which was based at Ashbourne in Derbyshire. The Unit flew Ansons and Oxfords to train Air-gunners and Wireless Operators.
The circumstances of his death are not known.
He was buried in Batley Cemetery, Oxford in Plot 12, Grave 162. A private inscription on his headstone reads "Death cannot come to him untimely who is fit to die - Millman".
His home was at 18, Walsworth Road, Hitchin and his parents were Edwin Thomas and Helen Myles of Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Paul Johnson - local historian, Mr D. Moore, Secretary, Aircrew Association (North Herts)
