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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
Windsor, Ontario
Death:
December 11, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave.
Additional information
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.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Rayden Frederick Watson
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Photo of Rayden Watson
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Memorial
Flying Officer Rayden Frederick Watson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Rayden Frederick Watson is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Group Photo
Pilot, Sgt Eric George Kendall's Whitley bomber BD196 H for Harry, 10 O.T.U. Abingdon 25th June 1942 before setting off on a 1000 bomber raid on Bremen. -
Funeral
Guard of Honour of local young men at 1945 commemoration. -
Memorial
Crash site memorial Near Villeneuve en Montagne, Saone et Loire, France. -
Funeral
Citizens of Villeneuve en Montagne and officials assemble at the cemetery in April 1945 for commemoration. (It should be noted the allied authorities were unaware of the crash location or whereabouts of the crew of Halifax Bomber DT539 for two and a quarter years before it was stumbled upon by two passing RAF Officers). -
Memorial
Mairie of Villeneuve en Montagne has a plaque commemorating visit of relatives in 1992 for fifty years anniversary. -
Group Photo
27th June 1942 Abingdon, UK. Rayden 'Doc' Watson far right sat on bomb -
Photo of Rayden Frederick Watson
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Rayden Frederick Watson
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Rayden Frederick Watson
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Rayden Frederick Watson
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.
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