AIR CREW EUROPE CASUALTY GROUP OF FOUR TO SERGEANT ARTHUR WILTON RAGAN -A REAR GUNNER FLYING WITH 115 SQUADRON ON WELLINGTONS -KILLED IN ACTION ON 17/05/1942

1939/45 Star, Aircrew Europe Star, Defence and War Medals.
Medals about extremely fine.
Comes with original casualty medals slip, named to: SERGEANT A.W.RAGAN and medal box addressed to: Mrs.H.RAGAN, 17,Lennox Road,Worthing Sussex.
931128 Arthur Wilton Ragan 115 Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve,was killed in action on 18th May 1942.The son of John William RAGAN and of Sarah Henrietta Ragan, of Worthing Sussex.He is commemorated on the Runnymede memorial.
Arthur Wilton Ragan was born on 1921 in Dewsbury Yorkshire.He enlisted in the Royal Air Force at Uxbridge beween September, 1939 and June 1940 and war appointed as a class F Reservist.
Between March and May,1942 Sergean T Ragan has been identified as being involved in raids on Essen;Le Harvre;Cologne;Hamburg(abandoned) Hamburg;Rostock; Dunkirk (port airscrew damaged and rear turret unserviceable) Gennevilliers and Ostende.
Ragan was flying with 115 Squadron in Wellington MK111 AX-3644 with a crew of which he was rear-gunner,in Gardening Operations in the North Sea.Took off 22.34 from Marham, Norfolk.
At 1.38 a,am,on 18th May 1942,an aircraft was seen going down, out of control,at position 55N O6E and evidence suggests it may have been X3644.
115 Squadron records:
11 Aircraft took off between 2229 and 2242 hours to attack Boulogne target GARDENING and BOULOGNE.The 10 aircraft on GARDENING operations successfully located the target and dropped their vegetables in the allotted position from heights ranging from 600-700 feet.Two aircraft reported observing air combats off PELWORN at 0050 hours.also another aircraft reported having seen an aircraft crash and burst into flames off PELLWORN at 0045 hours.The height of the combat was 3/4000 ft.
A/C AX3644 (Captain Sgt Butterworth ) failed to return from operations.
Comes with copied research,and a C.D.

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