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Pilot Officer Graham Purvis

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Pilot Officer Graham Purvis Veteran

Birth
Hobart, Hobart City, Tasmania, Australia
Death
27 Nov 1944 (aged 22)
Cologne, Stadtkreis Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Burial
Rheinberg, Kreis Wesel, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Add to Map
Plot
4. H. 24.
Memorial ID
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Pilot Officer Royal Australian Air Force 408408 (Pilot)
Posting on Death: 115 Squadron (RAF), Witchford, Cambridgeshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster HK624; Place - Cologne, Germany; Date - 27 November 1944.
Shot down at Cologne-Mulheim During a Daylight Raid on Cologne.
The aircraft crashed into the Danzigel-Strasse at Cologne-Mulheim .
The crew of Lancaster HK624 were;
PURVIS, Graham - (Pilot Officer); Service Number - 408408
INGHAM E – (Flying Officer); Service Number – 150115 RAF
LIGHT L H – (Flying Officer); Service Number – 157334 RAF
POPE H M – (Pilot Officer); Service Number – J36085
SPOTSWOOD E – (Flight Sergeant); Service Number – 1522033 RAF
HUTCHINSON D H – (Sergeant); Service Number – 1825513 RAF
McFAKE H – (Sergeant); Service Number – 1825964 RAF
HOGHEN R – (Flight Sergeant); Service Number – 1394176 RAF
LOVERITT T – (Sergeant); Service Number – 2211822 RAF

He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Bellerive Tas, also his name is located at panel 129 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial
Son of John Stewart Purvis and Hylda Purvis; husband of Jessie Purvis, of Busselton, Western Australia.
Pilot Officer Royal Australian Air Force 408408 (Pilot)
Posting on Death: 115 Squadron (RAF), Witchford, Cambridgeshire.
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster HK624; Place - Cologne, Germany; Date - 27 November 1944.
Shot down at Cologne-Mulheim During a Daylight Raid on Cologne.
The aircraft crashed into the Danzigel-Strasse at Cologne-Mulheim .
The crew of Lancaster HK624 were;
PURVIS, Graham - (Pilot Officer); Service Number - 408408
INGHAM E – (Flying Officer); Service Number – 150115 RAF
LIGHT L H – (Flying Officer); Service Number – 157334 RAF
POPE H M – (Pilot Officer); Service Number – J36085
SPOTSWOOD E – (Flight Sergeant); Service Number – 1522033 RAF
HUTCHINSON D H – (Sergeant); Service Number – 1825513 RAF
McFAKE H – (Sergeant); Service Number – 1825964 RAF
HOGHEN R – (Flight Sergeant); Service Number – 1394176 RAF
LOVERITT T – (Sergeant); Service Number – 2211822 RAF

He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Bellerive Tas, also his name is located at panel 129 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial
Son of John Stewart Purvis and Hylda Purvis; husband of Jessie Purvis, of Busselton, Western Australia.

Inscription

HIS DUTY
FEARLESSLY AND NOBLY DONE
EVER REMEMBERED



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