Flying Officer Ronald Orr

Flying Officer Ronald Sinclair Orr,  Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He was a Navigator with 248 Squadron and died on 21st March 1944, aged 23. He had been born in Coldstream and was the son of Daniel and Mary Greenshields Orr of Coldstream and the brother of Danny who died in Edinburgh aged 101 in 2011. His sister Madge also lived in Coldstream and was for many years a faithful member of the Parish Church choir. He had been educated at the Berwickshire High School in Duns before going to work for the Bank of Scotland in Coldstream. He was also a keen member of the 1st Coldstream Boys Brigade Company. He is buried in Lennel Churchyard, Coldstream.  He had joined the R.A.F. in 1942 and trained in Canada being promoted to Flying Officer in June 19436. The Squadron flew the wonderful De Havilland Mosquito V1 from R.A.F. Portreath in Cornwall. His aircraft was hit on an Anti-Shipping strike in the Bay of Biscay and crash landed in the English Channel. The pilot was lost and although Ronald made it into a dingy he died from hypothermia before he could be picked up by an air sea rescue launch. .

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