Kenyon O. Burt                                                                                          Updated:  31 MAR 2013

Airman: e555005.htm Surname: Burt Init: K O Rank: W/C Service: RAF Sqdn: 82

P_link: p040.htm Plane: BLE V6026 Operation: Anti ship Crash_site: NorthSea off Holland

Crash_d: d020841 Buried_d: e555 C_link: e555.htm At_Next: HOLLAND

Kl. 13.15 den 2. august 1941 lettede BLE V6026 fra RAF Bodney på en patrulje, Beat No. 9. Flyet styrtede i Nordsøen. Ingen overlevende.
V6026 blev set styrte i havet efter at have angrebet et patruljefartøj på omkring 1.000 ton 16 km SV for Den Helder (omkring her). (Kilde: MACR)

A. D. W. Curr drev i land og blev begravet i Esbjerg den 5. september 1941.
K. O. Burt blev begravet i Bergen-Op-Zoom i Holland.
W. T. Ellis blev begravet i Kiel i Tyskland. (Kilde: FAF)

Wing Commander (Pilot) Kenyon Oswald Burt, 27 år, var søn af  Archibald Pugsley Burt og Mary Alice Burt, Uplyme, Dorsetshire; gift med Aileen Jessie Burt, Wargrave, Berkshire, United Kingdom. Honours Degree in Modern Languages Tripos, Cambridge; Qualified in Open Competition (1936) for Foreign Office.
Hæderstegn: D F C, Distinguished Flying Cross. Han er begravet på BERGEN-OP-ZOOM WAR CEMETERY i Holland, grav 33. B. 2.
(Kilde: CWGC)
3 flyvere.

At 13.15 hrs. on 2 August 1941 BLE V6026 took off from RAF Bodney on a patrol, Beat No. 9. It crashed in the North Sea. No survivors.
V6026 was seen to crash in sea after attacking patrol vessel of approx. 1,000 ton 10 miles SW of Den Helder (about here). (Source: MACR)

A. D. W. Curr was washed ashore and buried in Esbjerg on 5 September 1941.
K. O. Burt was buried in Bergen-Op-Zoom in Holland.
W. T. Ellis was buried in Kiel in Germany. (Source: FAF)

Wing Commander (Pilot) Kenyon Oswald Burt, 27, was the son of Archibald Pugsley Burt and Mary Alice Burt, of Uplyme, Dorsetshire, and the husband of Aileen Jessie Burt, of Wargrave, Berkshire, United Kingdom. Honours Degree in Modern Languages Tripos, Cambridge; Qualified in Open Competition (1936) for Foreign Office.
Awards: D F C, the Distinguished Flying Cross. He is buried in BERGEN-OP-ZOOM WAR CEMETERY in Holland, Grave 33. B. 2. (Source: CWGC)

Bomber Command No. 82 Squadron * No. 82 Squadron RAF * This Bristol Blenheim took off from RAF Bodney. See the Blenheim Society.
3 airmen.