LEST WE FORGET
Sergeant Raymond Vivien DANIELS
Service No: 404603
Born: Rockhampton QLD, 9 August 1914
Enlisted in the RAAF: 11 October 1940
Unit: No. 14 Operational Training Unit (RAF)
Died: Aircraft accident (No. 14 Operational Training Unit Hampden aircraft P5398), Gloucestershire, 25 March 1942, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Little Rissington (St Peter) Churchyard, Gloucestershire
CWGC Additional Information: Son of George Jeremiah and Florence Amy Daniels of Nanya Siding, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Capella QLD
Remembered: Panel 121, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On the night of 25 March 1942 Hampden P5398 took off from RAF Cottesmore for a night navigation training sortie. At 2110 hours the aircraft crashed and burned at Whittle Farm, Brockhampton, 3 miles east from the centre of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. All the crew were members killed.
The crew members of P5398 were:
Sergeant Edward John Biddulph (778574) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Sergeant Raymond Vivien Daniels (404603) (Observer)
Sergeant Bertram Noseworthy (798569) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Arthur William Westgate (403630) (RNZAF) (Air Gunner)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/100/189