Sergeant Pilot Royal Canadian Airforce.
Service No. R68180
From the Book "They Shall Grow Not Old" page 708
Sgt Smith age 20 #412 Falcon Squadron(Promptus Ad Vindictum) was killed when his Spitfire aircraft #H 4176 was in a mid-air collision near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England.
from Bomber County Aviation Resource :-
Collided with another Spitfire while practising combat and crashed into a wheat-field after the fuselage was cut in two during the collision, destroying it and killing the pilot Sgt RG Smith. Pilot of the other aircraft survived.
from Canadian Virtual War Memorial:-
Sergeant Raymond George Smith
August 2, 1941
Service Number: R/68180
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 142 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Commemorated on Page 45 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Parents George Leonard and Mary Elizabeth smith , Wife Betty Jane Smith.
Service No. R68180
From the Book "They Shall Grow Not Old" page 708
Sgt Smith age 20 #412 Falcon Squadron(Promptus Ad Vindictum) was killed when his Spitfire aircraft #H 4176 was in a mid-air collision near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England.
from Bomber County Aviation Resource :-
Collided with another Spitfire while practising combat and crashed into a wheat-field after the fuselage was cut in two during the collision, destroying it and killing the pilot Sgt RG Smith. Pilot of the other aircraft survived.
from Canadian Virtual War Memorial:-
Sergeant Raymond George Smith
August 2, 1941
Service Number: R/68180
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 142 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Commemorated on Page 45 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Parents George Leonard and Mary Elizabeth smith , Wife Betty Jane Smith.
Sergeant Pilot Royal Canadian Airforce.
Service No. R68180
From the Book "They Shall Grow Not Old" page 708
Sgt Smith age 20 #412 Falcon Squadron(Promptus Ad Vindictum) was killed when his Spitfire aircraft #H 4176 was in a mid-air collision near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England.
from Bomber County Aviation Resource :-
Collided with another Spitfire while practising combat and crashed into a wheat-field after the fuselage was cut in two during the collision, destroying it and killing the pilot Sgt RG Smith. Pilot of the other aircraft survived.
from Canadian Virtual War Memorial:-
Sergeant Raymond George Smith
August 2, 1941
Service Number: R/68180
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 142 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Commemorated on Page 45 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Parents George Leonard and Mary Elizabeth smith , Wife Betty Jane Smith.
Service No. R68180
From the Book "They Shall Grow Not Old" page 708
Sgt Smith age 20 #412 Falcon Squadron(Promptus Ad Vindictum) was killed when his Spitfire aircraft #H 4176 was in a mid-air collision near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England.
from Bomber County Aviation Resource :-
Collided with another Spitfire while practising combat and crashed into a wheat-field after the fuselage was cut in two during the collision, destroying it and killing the pilot Sgt RG Smith. Pilot of the other aircraft survived.
from Canadian Virtual War Memorial:-
Sergeant Raymond George Smith
August 2, 1941
Service Number: R/68180
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 142 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Commemorated on Page 45 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance
Parents George Leonard and Mary Elizabeth smith , Wife Betty Jane Smith.
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