Richard Lind

Sergeant Richard Wirsing Lind was an English airman of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died during the Second World War.
He was born in 1908, in Wandsworth, the son of Emile Gustave, an electrical engineer and manager, and Hannah Lind, originally of Australia and Germany, respectively.
Lind, serving as a navigator and bomb aimer in 142 Squadron, died on 23 September 1942,  when his Vickers Wellington (Z1219) was lost at sea while engaged on a minelaying operation targeting the Heligoland Bight.Storr, Alan (2006), RAAF Personnel Serving on Attachment in Royal Air Force Squadrons and Support Units in World War 2 and Missing with No Known Grave, p. 121, awm.gov.au. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Runnymede Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Lind, Richard, cwgc.org. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
Category:1908 births
Category:1942 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Category:British people of Australian descent
Category:British people of German descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Runnymede Memorial
Category:Sergeants