Service number | 402523 |
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Ranks Held | Flight Sergeant, Squadron Leader |
Birth Date | 06/04/1920 |
Birth Place | Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Lakemba |
Death Date | 15/01/1995 |
Death Place | Australia: New South Wales, Sydney |
Final Rank | Squadron Leader |
Service | Royal Australian Air Force |
Units |
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Conflict/Operation | Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Squadron Leader Donald Hindle McBurnie
Rolls
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Honours and Awards:
- Unit
- No. 238 Squadron (RAF)
- Conflict
- Second World War, 1939-1945
- Rank
- Squadron Leader
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Honours and Awards:
- Unit
- No. 450 Squadron
- Conflict
- Second World War, 1939-1945
- Rank
- Flight Sergeant
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Honours and Awards (Recommendation):
- Conflict
- Second World War, 1939-1945
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Honours and Awards (Recommendation):
- Conflict
- Second World War, 1939-1945
Timeline
Date of birth | 06/04/1920 | |
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Date and unit at enlistment (ORs) | 16/09/1940 | Flight sergeant. |
Other units | 30/10/1941 | No 229 Squadron. |
Other units | 14/01/1942 | No 450 Squadron. |
Date wounded | 30/05/1942 | |
Other units | 08/09/1943 | No 451 Squadron. |
Date promoted | 19/04/1944 | Acting flight lieutenant. |
Date promoted | 05/01/1944 | Pilot officer. |
Other units | 17/07/1944 | Temporary Commanding Officer No 451 Squadron. |
Date promoted | 14/08/1944 | Acting squadron leader. |
Other units | 14/08/1944 | Commanding Officer No 238 Squadron. |
Date promoted | 03/07/1944 | Flight lieutenant. |
Date of death | 15/01/1995 |
Related information
Conflicts
Related Objects
- AWM65 3307 - [RAAF biographical files:] MCBURNIE Donald Hindle 402523
- El Daba, Egypt. c. 1943. Portrait of 402523 Flying Officer Donald H (Don) McBurnie DFM, of ...
- El Daba, Egypt. c. 1943. Informal portrait of three pilots of No. 451 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF. ...
- El Daba, Egypt. c. 1943. Three pilots of No. 451 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF. Left to right: Flying ...
- Corsica, France. July 1944. Informal portrait of 402523 Squadron Leader D. H. McBurnie DFC DFM, ...
- St Catherines, Corsica, France. c. July 1944. 403150 Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) G. W. Small DFC of ...
- St Catherines, Corsica, France. c. July 1944. Pilots of No. 451 (Spitfire) Squadron RAAF ...
- St Catherines, Corsica, France. c. July 1944. 402523 Flight Lieutenant D. H. McBurnie of ...
- Group portrait of smiling RAAF pilots serving with 450 (Kittyhawk) Squadron RAAF after they had ...