Pilot Officer Desmond De Burgh Curtis (1922-1943)

Pilot Officer Desmond De Burgh Curtis Veteran

Birth

15 Jan 1922

Townsville City, Queensland, Australia

Death

7 Sep 1943 (aged 21)

Germany

Burial

Durnbach War Cemetery

Gmund am Tegernsee, Landkreis Miesbach, Bavaria, Germany Show Map

Plot

Coll. grave 9. B. 7-11.

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402789 Pilot Officer Desmond Curtis enlisted on the 14th of October 1940 at Townsville Queensland. At the time of his death he was posted with the 156 Squadron.
On the night of the 6th/7th September 1943, Lancaster Mark III "Y" Type ED990 took off from Worboys Airfield to carry out a bombing attack on Munich. The aircraft was shot down, and all the crew were killed.
Flight Lieutenant Alan Montgomery Lutz
Pilot Officer Desmond De Burgh Curtis
Flying Officer George Bruce Clement
Pilot Officer John Russell Hurst
Sergeant Kenneth Pearson
Pilot Officer Jack Fletcher
Sergeant William Simpson

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Royal Australian Air Force

Gravesite Details

402789

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Parents

De Burgh Laurence "Bob" Curtis

1894–1949

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