Personnel Index - Detail
Name
BURNETT
First Names
Wilfred Jasper
Rank
F/Lt
Service
RAF (as a Canadian)
Service Number
40076
Crew Position
Pilot
Posting In
Posted in 11/39 and out 10/40
In September 1940 he was posted out to 14 OTU Cottesmore after completing 35 Hampden operations.
Later Air Commodore DFC, DSO, AFC, OBE.
He was posted to 408 Squadron and was injured in an accident in the Yorkshire Dales in January 1942.
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"Posted Out" 2006
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