GARRAWAY Derek Peter

  • First Name(s):
    Derek 
    Peter 
  • Surname:
    GARRAWAY
  • Service Number:
    175558
  • Rank:

    Pilot Officer/Air Bomber

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Air Force
  • Air Force:
    Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  • Air Force Unit:
    78 Squadron
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    27th April 1944
  • Age At Death:
    21
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Clichy Northern Cemetery, France, Plot 16. Row 16. Grave 11.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of of Group Captain Frederick Frank Garraway, O.B.E. (killed on active service, 12th May, 1941), and of Buddug Garraway, of Cockfosters, Barnet, Hertfordshire

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GARRAWAY Derek Peter Is Named On These Memorials

Malvern College WW2 Memorial

Further Information About GARRAWAY Derek Peter

Derek Garraway was born in 1922. He attended Malvern College in House 9 from 1936 to 1940.

Derek Garraway was a crew member on Halifax LV873 which took off from RAF Breighton, Yorkshire on 26th April 1944 on a night raid to Velleneuve to bomb the railway yards there. The aircraft was hit by flak and crashed at Choisy-Le-Roi in the Southern suburbs of Paris.

The website for the above information appears to be no longer online.

His father, Station Commander, RAF Linton on Ouse G/Cpt Frederick Frank Garraway OBE RAF (04016) was killed whilst commanding fire-fighting operations following an enemy attack on Linton on Ouse airfield. He was buried in Newton on Ouse churchyard, Yorkshire.

Source for information on Frank Garraway:
http://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/yorkshire/york41/12may41b.html

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