LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Kenneth Ronald RAYMER
Service No: 23177
Born: Brisbane QLD, 26 September 1920
Enlisted in the RAAF: 7 August 1940
Unit: No. 2 Flying Boat Repair Unit
Died: Drowned, Lake Macquarie NSW, 27 August 1944, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Newcastle (Sandgate) War Cemetery, NSW
CWGC Additional Information: Son of William Robert and Sarah Jane Raymer; husband of Vera Raymer, of Wooloowin, Queensland
Roll of Honour: Brisbane QLD
Remembered: Panel 113, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 27 August 1944, Flight Sergeant Raymer, a Fitter Motor Boat, drowned when he fell from RAAF Motor boat 017-22 into Lake Macquarie off Belmont, New South Wales.
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 A9301, 23177