OEHME, Raymond Harold
| Service Number: | 116112 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 September 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Leading Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots |
| Born: | Murray Bridge, South Australia, 27 November 1917 |
| Home Town: | Cheltenham, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Marist Brothers’ School, Alberton, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Metal Finisher |
| Died: | Hope Valley, South Australia, 4 December 1995, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Enfield Memorial Park, South Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 16 Sep 1942: | Involvement 116112, Aircraft / Repair / Salvage Depots | |
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| 16 Sep 1942: | Enlisted Adelaide | |
| 16 Sep 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 116112 | |
| 17 Jul 1946: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Leading Aircraftman Raymond Harold Oehme (Service No:116112) enlisted in the RAAF at No 5 Recruiting Centre Adelaide on 16 September 1942 as an Aircraftman ! - mustered as Trainee Technical, re mustered as Flight Rigger and then as Fitter. LAC Oehme was attached to 22 Repair and Salvage Unit (RSU) from 1943 to 1945, serving at Nadzab, Cape Gloucester, Noemfoor and Labuan (20 January 1944 - 15 August 1945), and was posted to 5 Central Recovery Depot (CRD) on 17 October 1945. LAC Oehme was attached to 1 Aircraft Depot (AD) at Discharge on 17 July 1946.
Ray was born in Murray Bridge, South Australia in 1917, second of three children of Wilfred Charles Oehme (b1888 at Saddleworth via Riverton, South Australia) and Vera irene Fitzgibbon (b1889 in Broken Hill, New South Wales). Wifred was a Fitter in Broken Hill in 1913 when he and Vera married. They lived in Broken Hill until 1917, when they moved to South Australia - living at Murray Bridge and in Cheltenham, where they raised their family and Wilfred was an Engineer.
Ray worked in Cheltenham as a Metal Finisher with General Motors Holden before enlisting in the RAAF in 1942. He was in Melbourne in 1946 when he married his first wife Irene Veronica Fisher (b1923 in Sunbury, Victoria) - Irene was an Aircraftwoman in the WAAAF (Service No:110885). Ray and Irene moved to Adelaide, where they Divorced in 1954. Ray remarried in 1957 in Adelaide to Avis Elsie Thompson (b1917 in Alberton, South Australia). The following year Ray and Avis moved to Sydney, where they settled and Ray worked as a Metal Finisher and Inspector until retirement. The couple returned to South Australia, where Avis died in 1993 and Ray in 1995.
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