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F/Sgt Ronald Mansfield Oakes

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F/Sgt Ronald Mansfield Oakes Veteran

Birth
Woolwich, Hunter's Hill Municipality, New South Wales, Australia
Death
14 Jan 1944 (aged 20)
Halchter, Landkreis Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, Germany
Burial
Seelze, Region Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany GPS-Latitude: 52.3777063, Longitude: 9.6520023
Plot
Coll. grave 3. G. 4-11.
Memorial ID
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Flight Sergeant Royal Australian Air Force 422246
Posting on Death: 115 Squadron
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster DS 720; Place - Halchester, Germany; Date - 14/15 January 1944.
Shot Down at Halchter near Wolfenbuttel 6 Miles South of the Target During a Raid on Brunswick.
The crew of Lancaster DS 720 were;
OAKES, Ronald Mansfield - (Flight Sergeant); Service Number - 422246
BLACKWELL F S – (Pilot Officer); Service Number – NZ 415739
DICKINS K S – (Flying Officer); Service Number – 134058
WALDRON C K – (Pilot Officer); Service Number – NZ242344
BERRY W C – (Flight Sergeant); Service Number – 1600195
HARRIS R J – (Sergeant); Service Number – 1629001
SOULSBY T W – (Sergeant); Service Number – 1675681
McGHEE D W – (Sergeant); Service Number - 1332995
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Longueville NSW, also Ronald Mansfield Oakes's name is located at panel 128 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Dudley Sedgwick Mansfield Oakes and Kathleen Stoney Oakes, of Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia.
View Memorial site here
Flight Sergeant Royal Australian Air Force 422246
Posting on Death: 115 Squadron
Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Lancaster DS 720; Place - Halchester, Germany; Date - 14/15 January 1944.
Shot Down at Halchter near Wolfenbuttel 6 Miles South of the Target During a Raid on Brunswick.
The crew of Lancaster DS 720 were;
OAKES, Ronald Mansfield - (Flight Sergeant); Service Number - 422246
BLACKWELL F S – (Pilot Officer); Service Number – NZ 415739
DICKINS K S – (Flying Officer); Service Number – 134058
WALDRON C K – (Pilot Officer); Service Number – NZ242344
BERRY W C – (Flight Sergeant); Service Number – 1600195
HARRIS R J – (Sergeant); Service Number – 1629001
SOULSBY T W – (Sergeant); Service Number – 1675681
McGHEE D W – (Sergeant); Service Number - 1332995
He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Longueville NSW, also Ronald Mansfield Oakes's name is located at panel 128 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial.
Son of Dudley Sedgwick Mansfield Oakes and Kathleen Stoney Oakes, of Willoughby, New South Wales, Australia.

Inscription

"GREATER LOVE
HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE"


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