LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer David Frederick BRAHAM
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 72463 (RAFVR)
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 10 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Dishforth
Died: Air Operations: (No. 10 Squadron Whitley V aircraft P4954), France, 11 June 1940, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Abbeville Communal Cemetery, Somme, France
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Dudley Disraeli Braham and of Julia Swift Braham (nee Whiteside), of Ashbourne, Derbyshire. B.A. (Cantab.): Jesus College
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Whitley P4954 took off from Dishforth at 2047 hours to interdict in the battle area. The aircraft crashed in the vicinity Abbeville (Somme), France, killing all on board.
The crew members of P4954 were:
Sergeant James McDonald Black (536996) (RAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer David Frederick Braham (72463) (RAFVR) (Second Pilot)
Sergeant Leslie Arthur Keast (564740) (RAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant John Jacob Myers (580910) (RAF) (Observer)
Leading Aircraftman Raymond Robin Henry Nuttall (624643) (RAF) (Wireless Air Gunner)
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Chorley, W.R. Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War Volume 1 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1939-1940, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1992
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records