Peter Welburn Rawcliffe
Service number
814238
Military unit
156 Sqdn Royal Air Force (Auxiliary Air Force)
Address
Unknown
Date of birth
Date of death
01 Aug 1942 (24 years old)
Place of birth
Unknown
Employment, education or hobbies
Unknown
- Family History
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Family history
He was the son of Major Thomas Welburn Rawcliffe and Margaret Rawcliffe, of Lound, Nottinghamshire
Military history
Wellington III Z1622
Took off 0004 1 Aug 1942 from Alconbury. Crashed in the North Sea off the Dutch coast.
Pilot Officer R Woof (RCAF), Flight Sergeant A M Illingworth, Sergeant L H Chessun, Flight Sergeant P W Rawcliffe: killed; Sergeant S Coulson: missing believed killed; aircraft failed to return from an operational flight over Dusseldorf, Germany, 1 August 1942.
Extra information
Unknown
Photographs
Peter Welburn Rawcliffe
Photo: Courtesy of Michael and Elizabeth Szarelis