Date of death:

May 31st, 1942 (Linde (Vorden) /Gelderland, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Graves Vorden
Grave: 4.

Service number:

1305765

Nationality:

British

Sergeant, RAFVR, 156 Squadron RAF.

Sergeant Catley was one of the air gunners of the Vickers Wellington DV715 GT-V, which took off from RAF Alconbury at 23:55 on 30 May 1944. The aircraft, one of the Pathfinders, was shot down by a German night fighter on its way back after an attack on Cologne in Germany. The Wellington crashed in flames near Linde (Vorden), killing the entire five-man crew. Sergeant Catley and the rest of the crew are buried in the general cemetery in Vorden.

In 2022, a monument was unveiled at the crash site

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• Photo 1: Jan de Jager
• - Sergeant Raymond Catley | War Casualty Details 2648316 | CWGC
  - https://losses.internationalbcc.co.uk/loss/204615/

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