{"id":650,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=650"},"modified":"2021-07-05T07:50:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T07:50:44","slug":"rosen-raymond-arnold","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/rosen-raymond-arnold\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosen, Raymond Arnold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Raymond Arnold Rosen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pilot, 10 Squadron
Service number 149350
Died 1 July 1944
Buried Poix de Picardie (Poix-de-la-Somme) Churchyard, France
Age 26<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headstone Inscription
‘I LOST A SON WITH A HEART OF GOLD, HIS LOSS TO ME CAN NEVER BE TOLD’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Raymond was born in April 1918 in Steyning, Sussex to Boris, who was born in the Ukraine and Kitty n\u00e9e Kaufman and he had a sister named Irene. Their father Boris worked as a furrier. Ray was educated at Macauley House school in Cuckfield. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the outbreak of war Ray was in Los Angeles working as an assistant cameraman and travelled home to join the army. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 5 March 1940, Ray enlisted into the Army, serving in the Welsh Regiment and then transferred to the Monmouthshire Regiment on 13 June 1940. After serving in the Army for fourteen months Ray transferred to the Royal Air Force on 10 May 1941 as an Aircraftman 2nd<\/sup> Class. By the 1 July 1941 he was an under-training pilot and he qualified as a pilot on the 30 Jan 1942. He gained his commission as a pilot on 21 May 1943, and became flying officer on 21 Nov 1943. He was sent to 10 Squadron in May 1944 and was on his ninth operation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ray was the pilot of Halifax MZ584 known as \u2018V for Victory.\u2019 Six of the crew were killed and the story of the aircraft crash as told by the sole survivor Andrew McKinnon, the rear gunner, is on the link below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

F\/E, Daniel Daley, 1890562
A\/G, Arthur Stanley Fordham, 1866501
A\/B, Jack Cyril Lelliott, 151978
W\/Op, Gordon Seymour Lind, 1520883
Nav, Henry Charles Williamson-Rattray, 646518<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Rear Gunner, Sgt Andrew McKinnon’s statement on the crash of Halifax MZ584. <\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
McKinnon’s letter to Ray’s father Boris. Courtesy of Ray Rosen. <\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Sqn Ldr J N Hullah DFC, witness to Ray Rosen’s death. Courtesy Ray Rosen.<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Account of incident of Ray’s aircraft hitting another by (Jack) Stephen G Smith DFC and his Bomb
Aimer, Monty Greenblatt DFM. Courtesy Ray Rosen <\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
The Montorgueil incident, 25 June 1944. Courtesy Ray Rosen <\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n