Service Details
Name:
 BRAINE
Given Name:
 HOPE
Initials:
 H
Service No:
 403211
Rank:
 Flying Officer
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Regiment:
 Royal Australian Air Force
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Unit:
 221 (R.A.F.) Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1943-02-07
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Date of Birth:
 1915-01-30
Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Wellington HX600 took off from RAF Luqa at 1830Z hours on 7 February 1943 to illuminate a convoy 60 miles east of Sardinia. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it did not return to base. One body was washed ashore on the south coast of Sardinia, and is buried in the British Military cemetery, at Cagliari, Sardinia. It was later recorded that the remaining missing crew members had lost their lives at sea
Additional
Information:
Son of Major Horace Braine and Evelyn Braine; husband of Sylvia Law Braine, of Cape Town, South Africa. World Professional Ice Skating Champion 1936 and 1937.
Commemoration
Country:
 Malta
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Cemetery:
 MALTA MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 11, Column 1.

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