Malcolm Burger

Malcolm Graham Stewart Burger
Born	(1894-09-14)14 September 1894 Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony
Died	after 1958[1]
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	Royal Air Force
Rank	Lieutenant
Unit	No. 54 Squadron RAF
Awards	Distinguished Flying Cross

Lieutenant Malcolm Graham Stewart Burger (14 September 1894 – after 1958) was a World War I flying ace credited with five victories.[2] He became an acting Captain in November 1918, and remained in the Royal Air Force after the end of the war.[3]

Honours and awards

• Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)
• Lieut. (A./Capt.) Malcolm Graham Stewart Burger. (FRANCE)
• "During the last battles this officer displayed marked gallantry and devotion to duty on low-flying bombing patrols, inflicting heavy casualties on numerous occasions. He has destroyed three enemy machines, and forced another to land." Supplement to the London Gazette, 8 February 1919 (31170/2036)

Sources of information

1. Revised Registers of Voters Qualified to Vote at Elections of Members of the Legislative Council, 1958. Government Printer. 1958. p. 15.
2. "Malcolm Graham Stewart Burger".
3. Above the Trenches Supplement. p. 2.

References

• Above the Trenches Supplement: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces. Christopher F. Shores, Norman L. R. Franks, Russell Guest. Grub Street, 1996. ISBN 1-898697-39-6, ISBN 978-1-898697-39-8