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Pilot Officer Brian B Raises
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Pilot Officer Brian B Raises

Birth
Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia
Death
10 Dec 1942 (aged 21)
Libya
Monument
El Alamein, Maṭrūḥ, Egypt Add to Map
Plot
Column 249.
Memorial ID
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Braham Raises was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1921 and he was in Palestine in 1939 where he joined the Royal Air Force at the outbreak of WW2

He changed his first name to Brian around this time. His RAF service number as a Sergeant was 913822 - which changed to 136319 when he was commissioned as a Pilot OfficerPilot Officer Brian Raises became a fighter pilot on Hurricane & Spitfire aircraft - he was shot down in a dog-fight over Marble Arch in Libya while flying Spitfire ER461 of 601 Squadron RAF Son of Nahum and May Raises, of Tel Aviv, Israel (formerly of Melbourne, Victoria)
Braham Raises was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1921 and he was in Palestine in 1939 where he joined the Royal Air Force at the outbreak of WW2

He changed his first name to Brian around this time. His RAF service number as a Sergeant was 913822 - which changed to 136319 when he was commissioned as a Pilot OfficerPilot Officer Brian Raises became a fighter pilot on Hurricane & Spitfire aircraft - he was shot down in a dog-fight over Marble Arch in Libya while flying Spitfire ER461 of 601 Squadron RAF Son of Nahum and May Raises, of Tel Aviv, Israel (formerly of Melbourne, Victoria)

Inscription

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Gravesite Details

136319


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