226744 Pilot Officer Raymond Patrick Earl Royal Air Force (d.26/27 September 1940) Raymond Patrick Earl was born in Australia and was my uncle. He resigned from the Astralian Navy and went to England to join the RAF and flew during the Battle of Britain.
His final mission was to bomb two targets, the main target was the battleship Scharnhorst in the harbour of Kiel. His aircraft was the only one not to return and his body was washed up in Sweden 2 months later. He is now buried in the Kviberg Cemetery Gothenburg. He was only 23 years old.
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