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WILLIAMS, Richard Sutton

Service Number:	411411
Enlisted:	28 April 1941
Last Rank:	Flight Lieutenant
Last Unit:	No. 464 Squadron (RAAF)
Born:	Bondi, New South Wales, Australia, 12 August 1915
Home Town:	Patonga, Gosford Shire, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Storekeeper, Patonga Beach, New South Wales, Australia
Died:	Flying Battle, France, 22 August 1944, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	Bona Communal Cemetery, Nievre, France Joint Grave.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Woy Woy War Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Flight Lieutenant, 411411
28 Apr 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 411411, No. 464 Squadron (RAAF)
20 Oct 1943:	Honoured Distinguished Flying Cross, Squadron Leader Gordon (Peter) Panitz, RAAF, of Queensland, Australia, serving as pilot with a R.A.F. Mosquito "train buster" squadron and his navigator, Flying Officer Richard Sutton Williams, of New South Wales, Australia, who have been awarded the D.F.C. Panitz's citation states that in four months he has damaged 13 trains and several electrical installations in enemy-occupied territory, whilst Williams' refers to his faultless navigation. On 6th May 1943, this team of Australian "Mosquito Men" damaged six trains in six minutes during a daylight sortie in enemy-occupied France.

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