Sergeant, RAF
Born: August 7th 1915
Died: June 19th 1941
Age at Death: 25
Killed, June 19th 1941
Raymond Elliott was born on 7 August 1915, the son of a dentist, Harold, who had served in the army in the Great War, and his wife Gladys (née Way), of Steyning, near Brighton. At the College he was in the Modern Section, which concentrated on maths and science. During the war Raymond was in 9 Squadron, based at RAF Honington in Suffolk, flying the long-range Wellington bomber.
On 18 June 1940 the squadron was sent on a night mission to bomb the German town of Leverkusen on the banks of the Rhine, home to a factory owned by IG Farben, an important manufacturer of matériel for the German war effort. Unfortunately, in the early hours of the following morning, during the return flight, Elliott’s Wellington was lost over the North Sea. Elliott is commemorated at the Runnymede Memorial to air force personnel with no known grave. His younger brother, Gordon, died at El Alamein in 1942.