VENNING, Raymond Owen
Service Number: | S6116 |
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Enlisted: | 23 November 1941, Sydney, New South Wales |
Last Rank: | Ordinary Seaman |
Last Unit: | HMAS Kuttabul (Shore) |
Born: | Pinnaroo, South Australia, Australia, 4 June 1923 |
Home Town: | Pinnaroo, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Killed in Action, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1 June 1942, aged 18 years |
Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemetery & Crematorium Necropolis, CofE, Naval Section 4, Grave 827 , Rookwood Necropolis, Rookwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Garden Island Naval Base HMAS Kuttabul Memorial, Pinnaroo War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
23 Nov 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Ordinary Seaman, S6116, HMAS Cerberus (Shore), Sydney, New South Wales | |
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23 Nov 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Seaman, S6116 | |
1 Jun 1942: | Involvement Royal Australian Navy, Ordinary Seaman, S6116, HMAS Kuttabul (Shore) | |
Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Norman Edgar Venning and Annetta Lois Jenner of Pinnaroo, South Australia. Brother of Percy Alan Venning, Lois Esther Venning and Eric Norman Venning
Raymond was serving on HMAS Kuttabul which was attacked and sunk by a Japanese midget submarine which had slipped into Sydney Harbour on the night of 31 May 1942
HMAS Kuttabul was used mainly as an accommodation ship for naval personnel who were waiting to join their ships.
Raymond was one of the 21 Naval personnel who lost their lives when Kuttabul was sunk.