Burgess, Joseph Thomas

Killed in Action 1940-11-09

Birth Date: 1920

Born:

Home: Ottawa, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RAF

Unit

69 (GR) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
With Vigilance We Serve

Base

RAF Thorney Island

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Flying Officer

Service Numbers

41372

Home
Google MapOttawa, Ontario
First Burial
Google MapMalta War Memorial, Malta
69 Sqn,431(General Reconnaissance) Flight (With Vigilance We Serve) RAF Thorney Island, Martin Maryland I aircraft AR 719 lost on ferry flight between England and Malta. Flying Officer JT Burgess (RAF)(Can), Sergeant BF Hubbard (RAFVR) and Sergeant PA Sobey (RAFVR) missing, presumed killed. Flying Officer Burgess and Sergeant Hubbard are commemorated on the Malta Memorial and Sergeant Sobey on the Runnymede War Memorial. (Kevin and H Welting at www.rafcommands.com)

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Maryland AR719

Flying Officer Burgess, Joseph Thomas (RAF)
Pilot
Killed in Action
1940-November-09
Malta War Memorial, Malta

Martin Maryland

(RAF Photo)(Source Harold A Skaarup Web Page)
Martin 167 Maryland. Flown by RCAF aircrew serving with the RAF.
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The Martin Model 167 Maryland was an American-designed light bomber that first flew in 1939. It saw action in World War II with France and the United Kingdom.

Many of the aircraft were shipped to Egypt and Malta in time for the 1941 fighting there. The RAF used the aircraft mainly for photo-reconnaissance operations in North and East Africa, it being faster than the Bristol Blenheim. A Maryland bomber photographed the Italian fleet before and after the Battle of Taranto on 11 November 1940. The pilot, Adrian Warburton, scored his five confirmed kills with the Maryland's forward-firing guns.

Three Maryland Mk.Is were transferred to the British Fleet Air Arm and were mainly used for target towing duties.. On 22 May 1941, a Maryland of 771 Naval Air Squadron based at Hatston in the Orkney Islands, reported that the German battleship Bismarck had left Bergen, confirming that she was breaking out into the Atlantic.Wikipedia

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