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CHEATLE, Raey Hilton
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 432755 |
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| Enlisted: | 30 January 1943 |
| Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia, 11 July 1924 |
| Home Town: | Bankstown, Bankstown, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Flying Battle, Netherlands, 8 February 1945, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery, Netherlands Burried at Grave RR30, Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial |
Service History
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Flight Sergeant, SN 432755 | |
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| 30 Jan 1943: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, SN 432755 |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Riny van de Pol
Raey Hilton Cheatle was a flight sergeant in the RAF. On the 7 of february 1945 the Lancaster airplane ND961 of which Raey was the wireless operator, went on a mission witj 177 other allied aircrafts to bomb a waterway junction in Ladbergen Germany. On their way back his plane collided with an other RAF Lancaster above already liberated Holland. Raey and all the other crew members did not survied the crash. Raey, 20 years of age, is burried in Woensel (Eindhoven) cemetery Holland.
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