Date: 1941 May 24/25			A/C Type: Blenheim IV		SN: V6380		Code: RH-G		A/C Nickname:
File: 223		Airforce: RAF		Sqn/Unit: 88 Sqn			Mission/Raid: Partol Channel Belgian coast
1	Pilot	P/O Bruce E. Hislop             Australia  -  MIA					9
2	Obs	P/O Robert M. Burlinson   RCAF, from Tuscon, USA					10
3	WO/AG	Sgt. Maurice A. Stratton     Melissant, now BOZ.					11
4							12
5							13
6							14
7							15
8							16
Attacked convoy off Oostende. On return attacked by German fighters. Belly landed into the Channel.

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P/O Robert M. Burlinson (from Tucson, Arizona, USA. Volunteered the Canadian Airforce to fight the Nazis before the US entered WW2). He washed ashore Zandvoort beach 4 weeks later after crash in sea and was buried in Amsterdam on 21 October 1941. Still rests there today.

Sgt. Stratton was reburied in Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery. Initially buried on the coast at Melissant.



Sources: 

- 2012 research of the original Amsterdam cemetery files and reconstruction of the war graves burial plan 1940-1945.  
- website CWGC
- website WW2talk




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