Raymond Dalwood JOHNSTON

Raymond Dalwood JOHNSTON Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

JOHNSTON, Raymond Dalwood

Service Number:	445230
Enlisted:	20 May 1944, Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 7 Operational Training Unit RAAF Tocumwal
Born:	Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia , 18 April 1926
Home Town:	Parramatta, New South Wales
Schooling:	Christian Brothers Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia.
Occupation:	Junior Clerk, Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board
Died:	Accidental, Tocumwal, New South Wales, Australia, 15 February 1945, aged 18 years
Cemetery:	Tocumwal War Cemetery Cemetery B A 4
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Sydney Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board WW2 Honour Roll

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Sergeant, 445230
20 May 1944:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 445230, No. 7 Operational Training Unit RAAF Tocumwal, Sydney, NSW

Help us honour Raymond Dalwood Johnston's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Norman Dalwood Johnston and Kathleen May Johnston, of Parramatta.

Raymond Dalwood Johnston worked as a Junior Clerk in Parramatta NSW before enlisting with the RAAF on 20 May 1944 aged 18. Initally training as an Air Gunner he was posted to 7 OTU in Tocumwal in November 1944.

On board Liberator A72-112 for a non-operational cross country training flight, the aircraft crashed with 11 crew on board just east of the Aerodrome. Sergeant Johnston sustained a fractured skull and was transported to Hospital where he later died on 15 February 1945.

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia