Collins, Ray Warren Buddy (Flight Sergeant)

Killed in Action 1943-September-04

Flight Sergeant Ray Warren Buddy Collins RCAF

Birth Date: 1923

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Home: Toronto, Ontario

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Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

50 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Sic Fidem Servamus Thus we keep faith

Base

RAF Skellingthorpe

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Bomb Aimer

Service Numbers

R/156379

Home
Google MapToronto, Ontario
Target
Google MapBerlin Germany
Temporary Burial
Google MapNeuruppin, Germany, Near Crash Site

Remains were later exhumed from this location and reburied

Final Burial
Google MapBerlin War Cemetery
Plot 7 Row J Grave 22

Took off from Skellingthorpe at 20:11 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code VN-Q Bomber Command) on a night operation to Berlin Germany.

The aircraft was shot up by a night fighter and engaged by flak, eventually crashing at Vielitz, Vielitzsee, Brandenburg Germany.

Killed includes Collins: Flying Officer Percy Hornby Coates RCAF J/11566 KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 7. J. 23. Flying Officer Jack Morgan Lauder RCAF J/22357 KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 7. J. 26. Sergeant Anthony Richard Duncan Bedbrook RAF KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 7. J. 25. Sergeant George Banks Buchan RAF KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 7. J. 27. Sergeant Reginald Gordon Cooper RAF KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 7. J. 24. Sergeant Robert McKeag RAF KIA Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery grave 7. J. 21.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Grave Commission Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Canada Primary Source Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)