Richard Burton, (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 â 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor.
In late 1944, Burton successfully completed a six-month scholarship at Exeter College, Oxford, and went to the RAF classification examinations held in Torquay to train as a pilot. He was disqualified for pilot training due to his eyesight being below par, and was classified as a navigator trainee. He served the RAF as navigator for three years, during which he performed an assignment as Aircraftman 1st Class in a Wiltshire-based RAF Hospital and was posted to the RAF base in Carberry, Manitoba, Canada to work as in instructor. Burton was discharged from the RAF on 16 December 1947.
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