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Raymond George Woods

Private, 24th New Zealand Battalion

Service number 13689, from Morven (Canterbury), aged 25. Killed in the air attack on the 24th Battalion camp at Myloi on 26 April 1941. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Athens Memorial (Face 14).

Also written: Ρέιμοντ Τζορτζ Γουντς, R. G. Woods, 13689

Events

  1. 26 April 1941

    Dive bombers hit the 24th Battalion camp: four New Zealanders killed

    The New Zealand 24th Battalion reached Myloi early on 26 April 1941 and rested in a dried-up riverbed. Australian lorries driving to the camp in daylight were spotted, and dive bombers attacked the area at intervals for…

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