LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant William Raymond SUTTON
Service No: 422750
Born: Darlington NSW, 9 June 1920
Enlisted in the RAAF: 23 May 1942
Unit: No. 83 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Wyton
Died: Air Operations: (No. 83 Squadron Lancaster aircraft ND505), Netherlands, 20 February 1944, Aged 23 Years
Buried: Flushing (Vlissingen) Northern Cemetery, Zeeland, Netherlands
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Richard Anthony and Beatrice Elizabeth Sutton, of Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Ryde NSW
Remembered: Panel 131, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2358 hours on the night of 19 February 1944 Lancaster ND505 took off from Wyton detailed to bomb Leipzig, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. It was later reported that the aircraft was shot down and had crashed at Wolphaartspijk (Zeeland), 22 kms east of Middleburg in the province of Zeeland, Netherlands. All the crew members had been killed.
The crew members of ND505 were:
Sergeant William Stanley Crockford (1388525) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator Air)
Sergeant Ernest William Curzon (1691959) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Thomas John Glanville Davies (1874074) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Pilot Officer Victor Arthur Reginald Langford (158023) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant William Desmond Lindley-Lloyd (1378157) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flying Officer Ronald Percy David Perkins (137552) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Flight Sergeant William Raymond Sutton (422750) (Rear 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, 166/38/431