Former cadet of the Air Training Corps - 296th (Stoke Newington) Squadron. Died in WW2.
The laminated plaque attached to one of the trees reads:- Flight Sergeant Ronald George Burton, aged 21, (Engineer) lost over France on the night of 31 May 1944, returning from bombing raid.
His birth was recorded in the 1st quarter of 1923 in Holborn. He was the son of George Burton (1892-1943) and Ethel May Burton, née Gurney (1891-1956). His father was a bread baker. Electoral registers from 1929 show the family living at 27 Leconfield Road, Highbury, N5. He was a member of the 42nd North London Boy Scouts Group.
He joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve gaining the rank of Flight Sergeant and his service number was 1801606. He was attached to 156 Squadron and he was aboard an Avro Lancaster III, serial number NE143 with the marking GT-G that took off at 00.25 hours on 1 June 1944 from RAF Upwood, Cambridgeshire to join up with another 114 aircraft to bomb the railway yards at Tergnier in northern France. Two aircraft were lost in the raid, and his crashed at Neuvilleen, south west of St Quentin, France. He was one of three crew members that were killed and he was buried in Plot 7, Row G, Grave 3 of the Grand-Seraucourt British Cemetery, Seraucourt-le-Grand, Aisne, France.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan
