Gerald Francis GERAGHTY

GERAGHTY, Gerald Francis

Service Number: 434248
Enlisted: 6 November 1942
Last Rank: Flight Sergeant
Last Unit: No. 101 Squadron (RAF)
Born: Dalby, Queensland, Australia, 22 August 1924
Home Town: Wooloowin, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Legal Clerk
Died: Flying Battle, North West Europe, 5 October 1944, aged 20 years
Cemetery: Hotton War Cemetery
Plot D, Row 1, Grave 8, - exhumed from Henri Chapelle Cemetery, Belgium,
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial
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World War 2 Service

6 Nov 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 434248, Brisbane, Queensland
6 Nov 1942: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 434248, No. 101 Squadron (RAF)
5 Oct 1944: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 434248, No. 101 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45

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Biography

Father John Joseph Geraghty and Mother Beatrice Josephine Geraghty,
lived at 8 Fraser Street, Wooloowin, Brisbane, Queensland.

Cousin in service:
Virgil Paul Brennan  (known as 'Brennan of Malta')

 

Last rank  Flight Sergeant with 101 Squadron, RAF

5/10/1944   Died in flying Battle in an RAF Lancaster Bomber
                 (Designation: LL758, Lancaster III)
                  during an attack on Marshalling Yards in Saarbrucken, Germany. The plane
                  came down in the Ardennes region of Belgium. A boot belonging to Gerald
                  was identified.
It appeared to have been only his 2nd mission. First was 26-27/09/1944 - to Karlsruhe, Germany.

buried in:    Henri Chapelle Cemetery, Belgium

later exhumed and reburied in:
                  Hotton War Cemetery, Hotton, Wallonie, Belgium
                  Plot D; Row 1; Grave 8

His name is commemorated on Panel 122 at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT.

Submitted by Julianne T Ryan.  5/10/2016.  Lest we forget.

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