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Flying Officer Rayden Frederick Watson

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Military service

Service number: J/16430
Age: 24
Rank: Flying Officer
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 158 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth: August 31, 1918 West Worthing, Sussex, United Kingdom
Enlistment: November 11, 1940 Ontario
Death: December 11, 1942

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Coll. grave.
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Son of Frederick and Vera Watson of Chatham, Ontario.

Brother of Pilot Officer Waldron Worthing Watson, who died while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 123 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLENEUVE-EN-MONTAGNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY Saone-et-Loire, France

Villeneuve-en-Montagne is a village and commune 54 kilometres north-west of Macon, and 8 kilometres east of Le Creusot. The cemetery is on the south-west side of the village on the west side of the road leading to Les Baudots. The collective grave of six British and one Canadian airmen is right of the entrance, in the far corner and right of the memorial.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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