Forenames: Raymond Fraser
Rank: flight Sergeant
Serial Number: 416145
War: WW2,1939-1945
Campaign: War with Germany
Date of Death: 30th May 1943
Age at Death: 23 years
Cause of death: Air craft shot down over Germany.
As a boy he went to Winton Primary School. He worked on a local farm and then became a buyer for the Matura Freezing Works. At the outbreak of WW2 he chose the Air Force to serve his country.
Ray Norman trained to be an air force pilot in Canada, he was then sent to the royal air force in Cambridge England where he joined the 75th squadron. On his first bombing assignment over Germany he was co pilot of a Stirling Bomber, his aircraft was hit by enemy fire and started to go down, three of the eight crew members managed to jump clear and parachute to ground to become POW. The aircraft exploded in the air killing the remaining five crew members including Ray Norman.
His family were informed that he was missing in action because his aircraft had failed to return to base. it was not till five years later that his death was confirmed. His body and that of his comrades had been buried near the crash site by local people, in 1948 their remains were then exhumed and re-interred at a Commonwealth War cemetery in Germany.
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