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Pilot Officer

James Day McKeown

Service number 401440
Military unit 61 (RAF) Sqdn Royal New Zealand Air Force
Address Palmerston, Otago, New Zealand.
Date of birth 25 Sep 1919
Date of death 23 Jun 1942 (22 years old)
Place of birth Kaeo, Far North, Northland, New Zealand.
Employment, education or hobbies

Dairy Factory Assistant.
Family history

Son of Joseph Lythol McKeown and Bessie McKeown, of Kaeo, Auckland, New Zealand; husband of Jean Gwendolyn McKeown, of Palmerston North, Wellington, New Zealand.

Military history

Lancaster R5517 61 Sqn take off 23.40 RAF Syerston mission to Emden. Third major raid against the port in a week. 227 aircraft dispatched of which 6 were lost. R5517 hit by Flak of the Marine-Flak-Abteilung 236 crashing between Freepsum (Krummhörn) and Groß
Midlum (Hinte); Niedersachsen, all crew were killed. The bodies of six of the crew were recovered and lie in Sage cemetery, near Bremen in northern Germany. Sgt. Dryden’s body was never recovered and he is remembered on the RAF memorial at Runnymede.

Also killed
Sgt Sydney Bradshaw
Sgt John Dryden
Sgt James Fallon
F/O William McCulloch RCAF
S/L Ian McNaughton RCAF
Sgt Collin Parker

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