Mosquito HR236 took off to attack a target in north-west Germany on 24th July 1944 but his Mosquito FB.V1 HR236 failed to return.
The body of Sqd Leader Rabone was washed ashore at Heligoland Island three months later and buried there. After the war Rabone's remains were re-interred at Hotten British Military Cemetery, Belgium.
The body of his navigator, F/O FCH Johns DFC, was also recovered and lies in Hanover War Cemetery.