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KIRTON, Arthur

Aircraft Information
Aircraft
Serial Number
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Memorial information
Burial/Memorial Country United Kingdom
Burial/Memorial Place Kettering (London Road) Cemetery
Grave Reference Grave 1194..
Epitaph AS WE LOVED HIM, SO WE MISS HIM IN OUR MEMORY HE IS DEAR
IBCC Memorial Information
Phase 1
Panel Number 59
Enlistment information
Service Number 1172546
Service Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Group 7
Squadron Honeybourne
Trade Wireless Operator
Country of origin if different United Kingdom
Last Operation information
Start Date 30-11--0001
End Date 30-11--0001
Takeoff Station Honeybourne
Day/Night raid
Operation
Reason for Loss Gloucester Echo February 6th 1942: "HANGING TRAGEDY OF R.A.F. SERGEANT. That an R.A.F. sergeant who "did not want to go overseas" hanged himself in his hut while the balance of his mind was disturbed was the verdict recorded by Mr. J. D. Lane, the North Gloucestershire Coroner, at an inquest at Honeybourne on Thursday on Sergt. Arthur Paul Mons Kirton, aged 25, of 243 Kingsley Avenue, Kettering, Northants. Sergt. Hugh Stanley Morris, who gave evidence of identification, said that he was instructing Kirton, who seemed very quiet and worried about something. He was a good pupil. "He told me he did not want to go overseas, but gave no paticular reason," he said.