James Watkins DOUGLAS

DOUGLAS, James Watkins

Service Number: 424566
Enlisted: 12 September 1942
Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
Last Unit: No. 625 Squadron (RAF)
Born: Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia, 14 July 1924
Home Town: Strathfield, Strathfield, New South Wales
Schooling: Fort Street Boys High School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: Probate Clerk
Died: Flying Battle, Stattmatten, France, 12 September 1944, aged 20 years
Cemetery: Sessenheim Communal Cemetery
Grave 3. Headstone Inscription "AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER", Sessenheim Communal Cemetery, Sessenheim, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Municipality of Strathfield WW2 Roll of Honour, Strathfield Uniting Church WW2 Carillon
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Flight Sergeant, 424566
12 Sep 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 424566, No. 625 Squadron (RAF), Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
12 Sep 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 424566
27 Sep 1943: Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 424566, No. 625 Squadron (RAF), Embarked at Melbourne for overseas service

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of James Watkins Douglas and Sarah Elizabeth Douglas of Sydney, NSW

Subjects passed at school - English, Mathmatics, French, History, Geograhpy. In December 1941 he received his Diploma of Bookkeeping at the Metropolian Business College

Sports played were cricket, swimming and tennis

 

Biography contributed by David Barlow

Lancaster NF965 of Number 622 Squadron RAF was hit by flak and collided in the air with LM512 of Number 625 Squadron RAF with both aircraft crashing near the village of Stattmatten in France - target: Frankfurt, Germany

LM512

RAAF 417807 Flying Officer Cornish (Captain - Pilot)

RAAF 424566 Flight Sergeant Douglas (Wireless Air Gunner)

RAF Flight Sergeant R E L Askie (Navigator)

RAF Sergeant R E Evans (Air Bomber)

RAF Sergeant R G Barker (Mid Upper Gunner)

RAF Sergeant A B O’Connor (Rear Gunner)

RAF Sergeant C H Rose (Flight Engineer)

RAF Pilot Officer D S Tointon (2nd Pilot)

NF965

RAAF 434128 Flight Sergeant Vieritz (Wireless Air Gunner)

RAAF 424417 Flying Officer Jamieson (Navigator)

RAF Sergeant S Minnis (Mid Upper Gunner)

RAF Sergeant D T Forest (Rear Gunner)

RAF Flying Officer G W Owen Captain (Pilot)

RAF Sergeant W A Drewett (Flight Engineer

RAF Flying Officer O J Tofield (Air Bomber) - buried in the Hotton War Cemetery, Belgium

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