LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Dennis Frederick BURTENSHAW
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 1321486 (RAFVR)
Born: Location, Date unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 156 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Warboys
Died: Air Operations: (No. 156 Squadron Lancaster II aircraft JB640), Germany, 3 January 1944, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Arthur F and Florence Burtenshaw; husband of Brigit A Burtenshaw of Morden, Surrey; native of Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 216, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
On 3 January 1944, Lancaster JB640 took off from Warboys at 0009 hours to attack Berlin. The aircraft was lost without trace until 1976 when wreckage from this Lancaster was found in the eastern sector of Berlin.
The crew members of JB640 were:
Flight Sergeant Dennis Frederick Burtenshaw (1321486) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Flight Sergeant Kenneth Sidney James Chapman (1421743) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Norman Henry Colebatch (1578101) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Reginald Joseph Collens (18118940) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer John Donald Range Cromarty (162647) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Leonard Norman Lapthorne (1295704) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Frederick Edwin Woolven (1324142) (RAFVR) (Observer)
References:
Chorley W R, Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 5 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1944, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1997
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records