JAMES, Raymond Edwin
| Service Number: | 427508 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 July 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Flight Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Cottesloe, Western Australia, 9 October 1923 |
| Home Town: | Claremont, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Flying Battle, Bulgaria, 29 June 1944, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sofia War Cemetery, Sofia, Bulgaria Collective grave 2. B. 8-11 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Mosman Park Memorial Rotunda |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Flight Sergeant, 427508 | |
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| 19 Jul 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 427508 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
Wellington MF194 of 70SQN RAF was shot down over Bulgaria by a German fighter aircraft as it was returning from a successful bombing raid on the target of Navgarad in Romania - several other bomber aircraft from the mission were also shot down that night.
The all-Australian crew were on their 22nd mission together with the only survivor being Flying Officer Geoffrey Gordon Knyvett 425316 (Navigator) who became a Prisoner of War and was discharged from the RAAF in June 1945 following his liberation and repatriation to Australia
Killed were: Flight Sergeant James Russell Burgess 422130 (bomb aimer) / Flight Sergeant Raymond Edwin James 427508 (rear gunner) / Flight Sergeant Lloyd Fallon 417355 (Pilot) / Flight Sergeant Thomas Ronald Lowther 418752 (wireless operator)
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