Raymond Ernest Grayston
born 13.10.1918 Dunsfold,Surrey
RAFVR 1940
RAF Uxbridge 8.2.1940
7 RC 13.2.1940
3 STT 8.3.1940
6 FTS 7.8.1940
3 STT 8.8.1941
32 MU 11.3.1942
4 STT 27.8.1942
50 Squadron 10.10.1942
Flying Officer (155194)
617 Squadron 25.3.1943
flight engineer
Lancaster JB144
Op.Ladbergen (Dortmund-Ems Kanal)
hit trees and crashed 0346 hours near Den Ham,Holland
POW
Stalag Luft III (POW number 2531)
returned to UK 27.5.1945
released from RAF 30.10.1945
employed by Hawker Siddeley (later British Aerospace) postwar
retired 1985 to Woodhall Spa,Lincolnshire
married second wife Sylvia (1 stepson)
died 15.4.2010
