JOHNSTON, Raymond Dalwood
Service Number: | 445230 |
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Enlisted: | 20 May 1944, Sydney, NSW |
Last Rank: | Sergeant |
Last Unit: | No. 7 Operational Training Unit RAAF Tocumwal |
Born: | Parramatta, NSW, 18 April 1926 |
Home Town: | Parramatta, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Junior Clerk |
Died: | Accidental, Tocumwal, Tocumwal, New South Wales, Australia, 15 February 1945, aged 18 years |
Cemetery: |
Tocumwal War Cemetery Cemetery B A 4 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Sydney Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board WW2 Honour Roll |
World War 2 Service
3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Sergeant, 445230 | |
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20 May 1944: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 445230, No. 7 Operational Training Unit RAAF Tocumwal, Sydney, NSW |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Norman Dalwood Johnston and Kathleen May Johnston, of Parramatta.
Raymond Dalwood Johnston worked as a Junior Clerk in Parramatta NSW before enlisting with the RAAF on 20 May 1944 aged 18. Initally training as an Air Gunner he was posted to 7 OTU in Tocumwal in November 1944.
On board Liberator A72-112 for a non-operational cross country training flight, the aircraft crashed with 11 crew on board just east of the Aerodrome. Sergeant Johnston sustained a fractured skull and was transported to Hospital where he later died on 15 February 1945.