Beaune, Raymond Gerard (Flying Officer)

Prisoner of War 1944-October-06

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Service

RCAF

Unit

7 (B) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Per Diem Per Noctem By day and by night

Base

RAF Oakington

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

J/85723
PoW: 8225

Target
Google MapScholven Germany

Took off from Oakington at 15:02 in Lancaster Mk III (Sqn code: MG-X Bomber Command) on an operation to Scholven-Buer.

Shot down and crashed at Wissel, 3 miles from Emmerich, 25 miles from Arnhem. Participant in the "Death March January 1945.Camp overrun by Russians. Escaped with help from American troops January 1945

Killed: Flight Sergeant Archibald Cattanach Davidson RAAF KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 18. D. 7. Pilot Officer Walter Alexander MacWilliam RCAF J/92159 KIA Reichswald Forest War Cemetery grave 18. D. 8.

POWs includes Beaune: Sergeant Joseph Gordon Forster RAF POW camp not listed. Flight Sergeant William Henry Sweet RAF POW Stalag Luft L7 Bankau near Kreuzburg, Upper Silesia. Flight Sergeant Frederick Gordon Etheridge RCAF POW camp not listed. Flight Sergeant Kenneth Ivy Roy Milligan RCAF POW camp not listed.

Museum A video record of an interview with Raymond Beaune, "Voices from the Past", is contained in the archives of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. Contact Erin Napier, Curator

Crew or Other Personnel

Lancaster PB241

Flying Officer Raymond Gerard Beaune RCAF

Flying Officer Beaune, Raymond Gerard (RCAF)
Pilot
Prisoner of War
1944-October-06
cemetery unknown

Flight Sergeant Archibald Cattanach Davidson RAAF

Flight Sergeant Davidson, Archibald Cattanach (RAAF)

Killed in Action
1944-October-06
cemetery unknown

Pilot Officer Frederick Gordon Etheridge RCAF

Pilot Officer Etheridge, Frederick Gordon (RCAF)
Navigator
Prisoner of War
1944-October-06
cemetery unknown

Pilot Officer Walter Alexander MacWilliam RCAF

Pilot Officer MacWilliam, Walter Alexander (RCAF)
Air Gunner
Killed in Action
1944-October-06
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Germany

Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Ivy Roy Milligan RCAF

Flight Lieutenant Milligan, Kenneth Ivy Roy (RCAF)
Navigator
Prisoner of War
1944-October-06
cemetery unknown

Mission

Lancaster Mk.I/III PB241

Bombing Scholven Germany 1944-October-06 to 1944-October-06

7 (B) Sqn (RAF) Oakington

Missing on daylight operation to Synthetic Oil Plants at Scholven-Buer 6 Oct 1944