There is no record to say where he was buried, between September 1940 and 1967, when Cannock Chase German military cemetery opened and German Servicemen interred throughout Britain were reburied there.
Octogenarian Ron Carpenter lived in the village for many years after the war.
He said: “The German pilot was the first person buried in a newly-consecrated part of the cemetery at St Mary’s church in Buriton.”
But Buriton historian Doug Jones says there is no record of a burial, and suggests the remains may have gone to Petersfield mortuary.
In summer 1940, there were dog fights almost every day in the Hampshire skies.
On September 9, Ron, then aged five and living in Quarry Farm at Empshott Green, saw a German plane flying over the farm.
He said: “It was hit by anti-aircraft gunfire. Black smoke came out of it and it flew off towards Buriton.”
Ron, who now lives in Drift Road, Clanfield, thought no more about it, until after the war he became farm manager at Bollinge Farm in Buriton, and moved to the village.
Ron says he then learned the German plane, a Messerschmidt 109, (ME 109) crashed at Sun Wood Farm, near Ditcham Park School.
The farm is in the parish of Buriton, and records show that on September 9, 1940, an ME 109 crashed in a field there, killing two cows.
The 23-year-old pilot, Gefrieter Peter Becker, of Jagdgeschwader 53, a Luftwaffe squadron based near Le Touqet in France, died.
Ron says after the war the German pilot was exhumed from Buriton cemetery, but doesn’t know where the pilot was taken next. Cannock Chase cemetery records reveal a Gefreiter Peter Becker, also 23, is buried at Cannock Chase.
Anyone who can add to the story or who has memories of the war, can contact Mr Jones on 01730 231326.