LEST WE FORGET
Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Richard Dudley GEE
From Australia serving in the Royal Flying Corps
Service No: Not Assigned
Birth Registered: Pinjarra WA, 1896
Unit: 21st Squadron, Royal Flying Corps (Based at La Lovie, France)
Died: Air Operations, France, 4 June 1917, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Raymond and Annie Matilda Gee, of Colin Street, Perth, Western Australia
Remembered: Arras Flying Services Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On a photo reconnaissance mission over the Ypres Salient on 4 June 1917, Second Lieutenant Gee (Observer) and Second Lieutenant Henry Forsyth Paton RFC (Pilot), flying in RE8 aircraft A115, went missing.
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
National Archives UK RAF Casualty Book AIR 1/968 page 11, 103504