Service Details
Name:
 GRAY
Given Name:
 JAMES WILLIAM
Initials:
 J W
Service No:
 922567
Trade:
 Air Gnr.
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 149 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1942-08-29
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Age:
 31
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Stirling N6081, Nuremburg. 159 aircraft despatched- incurred 23 losses. Low altitude attack. PFF used target indicators for the first time and were able to place them with great accuracy. Much damage in the Altstadt and the Nazi rally area in the south of the city, shot down by a night-fighter and crashed 34 km NE of Mannheim
Additional
Information:
Son of Alexander and Maria Magdalene Gray, of East London, Cape Province, South Africa. A Mining Engineer
Commemoration
Country:
 Germany
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Locality:
 Bad Tolz, Bayern
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Cemetery:
 DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 2. D. 19.

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