Harry Lawrence MOTTERAM

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MOTTERAM, Harry Lawrence

Service Number:	427533
Enlisted:	19 July 1942
Last Rank:	Flying Officer
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Claremont, Western Australia, 22 January 1915
Home Town:	Claremont, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Builder and Contractor (Plasterer)
Died:	Flying Battle, Germany, 4 November 1944, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany Burial reference: - Plot 13, Row D, Grave 10. Personal Inscription: - "EVER REMEMBERED".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flying Officer, 427533
19 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 427533

Biography contributed by Dianne Black

Parents: - John Henry "Harry" Motteram and Hilda Eula Lawrence married married 1911 in Claremont, Western Australia.

Wife: - Winifred Bolton (married 1st October 1938 in
West Perth, Perth, Western Australia), of Claremont, Western Australia.

Final Mission: - 49th Squadron's Avro Lancaster III (#PB370) aircraft, with an aircrew of seven, took off at night from RAF Fulbeck for an air operation flight over the Dortmund-Ems Kanal in Ladbergen. PB370 crashed in Germany, taking the lives of the entire crew.
The crew of PB370 were-
Flying Officer George Hadley BAILY, - RAAF
Flying Officer Royston Willett BERRY, - RAFVR
Sergeant Stanley Raynor CRAWSHAW, - RAFVR
Flying Officer William John MORONEY, - RAFVR
Flying Officer Harry Lawrence MOTTERAM, - RAAF
Flight Sergeant Leslie George SPEAK - RAAF
Flying Officer Derrick TALBOT. - RAFVR

The cause and crash site have not been established.

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