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Post by currawong on Sept 10, 2017 14:48:28 GMT 12
Harold Norman (Bunny) Burrows NZ415572 passed away Friday, aged 97.
RIP, fair skies and tailwinds.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 12, 2017 0:39:03 GMT 12
Yes very sad. Peter Wheeler posted about Bunny's death in the death notice section. He'll be missed!
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Post by pjw4118 on Sept 13, 2017 17:24:07 GMT 12
For the record Bunny commenced training in Canada at 1 AOS school Malton from May 11 1942
then No 2 "O" AFU Malton Oct 27 1942
11 OTU Westcott Course 63 15 Jan 1943 crewed with F/O Megginson
1657 CU Stradishall April 28 1943
15 sq Mildenhall 18 May 1943 B flight 17 ops
622 sq Mildenhall Dec 1 1943 A flight 10 ops
1653 HCU Chedburgh May 12 1944
13 OTU Dec 10 1944 ( Mosquito ) crewed with P/O Kassler
487 sq Rosieres March 7 1945 13 evening anti train patrols
Postwar Bunny flew with 75 sq on Mosquitos from March 1947 including two UK ferry flights until May 1949 when he flew on the R&D Flight from Masterton with F/L Wenden using 2504 on top dressing trials. He served with 41 squadron , later in Malaya and finally as station adjudant in Lacaula Bay.
Certainly a varied service life .After the RNZAF Bunny took up commercial tomato growing in west Auckland until finally retiring .
He was a founder member of the NZBCA and held many posts when the Ass had branches in most centres , national reunions and over 1000 members. Sadly most have passed on now .
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Post by TS on Sept 13, 2017 19:39:01 GMT 12
Yes tomorrow will be a sad day. Spoke to his son Andy today.....  (We will remember them.) RIP Bunny. |
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(We will remember them.) RIP Bunny.