Burling, D

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Gunner Douglas Haig (Doug) Burling

Family/Last name:
Burling
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Douglas Haig (Doug)
Place of birth:
Enfield, New South Wales
Date of birth:
13/12/1918
Nationality:
Australia
Service number:
NX12877
Military Unit:
Australian Army (2nd Australian Imperial Force), 2/3 Field Regiment (Aus)
Rank when captured:
Gunner
Place of capture:
Crete
Date of capture:
30/5/1941
POW number:
91931
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Died while POW:
Yes
Data sources
View a commemorative certificate for this prisoner

From Chula Murray. 14/07/2024

Douglas was shot in the shower block on 13 December 1943. A second fatality that day was Sidney Arthur Smith, Royal Engineers 226 Field co. Service number 2193840.

German reports state that Doug attacked a guard, however eye witness War Crimes accounts suggest that the guard hit Doug first, then shot him.

He now lies in the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in Krakow.

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