Mervyn Kevin Burke   Photo: Mogens Jeppesen    Updated: 23 JAN 2022
                                                                            
Airman: a113031.htm Surname: Burke Init: M K Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAAF Sqdn: 405

P_link: p112.htm Plane: HAL W1274 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: Ellesø Mose

Crash_d: d240942 Buried_d: b260942 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa, R 2-11

 Den 24. september 1942 styrtede HAL W1274 ned i Ellesø Mose nordøst for Kruså.
Alle 7 besætningsmedlemmer omkom. Flyverne blev begravet den 26. september 1942 i Aabenraa.
Pastor Carl Beuck forestod begravelsen og foretog jordpåkastelsen. (Kilde: FAF)

Flight Sergeant Mervyn Kevin Burke, 24 år, var søn af Alfred Joseph og Alison Ann Burke, Randwick,
New South Wales, Australia. (Kilde: CWGC)

Se monument rejst ved nedstyrtningsstedet her 64 år senere.
Se p112MACR * Halifax Print * Halifax Mk III på YAM 2019 * folk bag en Halifax klar til en mission.
7 flyvere.

HAL W1274 crashed into Ellesø Moor northeast of Kruså on 24 September, 1942.
All 7 members of the crew perished. The airmen were buried on 26 September, 1942 in Aabenraa.
Vicar Carl Beuck carried out the burial and officiated at the graveside. (Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant Mervyn Kevin Burke, 24, was the son of Alfred Joseph and Alison Ann Burke, of
Randwick, New South Wales, Australia. (Source: CWGC)   He gave his life that we may live  R. I. P.

He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2, P 138.
Virtual War Memorial Australia has this. See monument erected at the crash site here  64 years later.

See No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons * No. 405 (City of Vancouver) Squadron RCAF
405 Squadron Association * No. 405 Squadron RAF Pathfinders

Halifax-Wikipedia*Halifax Print*Halifax-BC Museum.Canada * Halifax-RAF Museum
Halifax-The Yorkshire Air Museum * Halifax Mk III at YAM 2019*LAN-HAL.

Halifax II LQ-R took off from RAF Topcliffe at 19.00 hrs on 23 SEP 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this and details.) See p112MACR. 7 airmen.