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Old 10-06-2008, 03:43 AM   #1 (permalink)
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What happened to this RAAF lad?

We know when he died. Does anyone know where he was or should have been when he was killed. Posting at death was given as 75sq RAF.

He was the only RAAF death listed in the European theatre for that date.

Those on the 4th all have a grave.

He is listed on Runnymede. Any more info?

I was looking at a grave photo from Overijssel General Cemetery in Belgium where:


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an unknown airman of the 39-45 war RAAF was buried here on 5th July 1943.
I am not saying this is him as he could have been lost, days, weeks or months before and only interred on that date.

MOORE, CYRIL JAMES
Sergeant
410555
75sq RAF
5/07/1943
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My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."

(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm
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