John Terry Bray                                Updated: 07 MAY 2021

Airman: a045009.htm Surname: Bray Init: J T Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAAF Sqdn: 156

P_link: p093.htm Plane: WEL BJ840 Operation: Bomb G Crash_site: The North Sea

Crash_d: d290742 Buried_d: b160842 C_link: c045.htm At_Next: Kirkeby

Kl. 23.01 den 28. juli 1942 lettede WEL BJ840 fra RAF Alconbury på et bombeangreb mod Hamburg. Flyet medbragte 1 x 4,000 HC bombe.
Flyet styrtede i Nordsøen. Ingen overlevende. (Kilde: p093MACR)

Den 16. august 1942 begravede feltpræst dr. Hölger, Sild (her), en ukendt flyver, senere
identificeret som J. T. Bray. (Kilde: FAF)

Flight Sergeant John Terry Bray, 23 år, var søn af Leonard Samuel og Katherin Charlotte Bray,
Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia. (Kilde: CWGC)
Han var 2nd Pilot på WEL BJ840. (Kilde: MACR)
1 flyver fra WEL BJ840 blev begravet på Kirkeby Kirkegård. 5 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 6 flyvere.

At 23.01 hrs. on 28 July 1942 WEL BJ840 took off from RAF Alconbury on a bombing raid
targeting Hamburg. A/c carried 1 x 4,000 HC bomb.
The plane crashed in the North Sea. No survivors. (Source: p093MACR)

On 16 August 1942 Army Chaplain Dr. Hölger, Sylt (here), buried an unknown airman,
later identified as J. T. Bray. (Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant John Terry Bray, 23, was the son of Leonard Samuel and Katherin Charlotte Bray,
of Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia. (Source: CWGC)
He was the 2nd Pilot of WEL BJ840. (Source: MACR)
Beloved son of Leonard and Kathrine Bray    
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Ph 2, P135.
Virtual War Memorial Australia has this.
1 airman of WEL BJ840 was buried in Kirkeby Churchyard. 5 airmen have no known graves.

See No. 156 Squadron RAF (Wikipedia)*156 Squadron RAF*No. 156 Squadron Association*
156 Squadron Pathfinder Force* Wellington
Wellington III BJ840 GT- took off from RAF Alconbury at 23.01 hrs on 28 JUL 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)     6 airmen.