Service Details
Name:
 LAVERY
Given Name:
 RAY ARRAS
Initials:
 R A
Service No:
 329117V
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 31 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-08-15
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Age:
 25
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Liberator B24J Mk VI #KG939, 7 crew (1 RAFVR), shot down by anti-aircraft fire on second supply drop to Polish Home Army Partisans, crashed at Goledzinow near Warsaw, Poland
Additional
Information:
Son of James Samuel and Edna Blanche Lavery, of Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa. Born Queenstown. A clerk.
Commemoration
Country:
 Poland
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Cemetery:
 KRAKOW RAKOWICKI CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Coll. grave 1. C. 1.

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