Stanley Gordon ALLAN

ALLAN, Stanley Gordon

Service Number: 416404
Enlisted: 23 June 1941
Last Rank: Pilot Officer
Last Unit: No. 218 Squadron (RAF)
Born: North Adelaide, South Australia, 12 August 1921
Home Town: Prospect, Prospect, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Flying Battle, Belgium, 29 May 1943, aged 21 years
Cemetery: Hotton War Cemetery
Roll of Honour Prospect South Australia,
Memorials: Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial
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World War 2 Service

23 Jun 1941: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 416404, No. 218 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45
23 Jun 1941: Enlisted Adelaide, SA
23 Jun 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 416404
16 May 1942: Embarked
Date unknown: Involvement

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Biography

Plane was Stirling BF 565, missing while on Air Operations. Reported to have crashed near Kathrinenplei near Kattenis. 218 Squadron (G0ld Coast)

Rank - Pilot Officer

Son of Herbert George and Clare Allan, of Prospect, South Australia.

The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954)  Tue 11 Jan 1944

Private Casualty Advices

Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Allan, of Hudson street, Prospect Park, have been notified that their eldest son. PO Stanley Gordon Allan, who was reported missing from an operational flight over Germany on May 29 last, is now presumed dead. PO Allan was captain of a Stirling bomber attached to an RAF squadron. Before the war he was employed in the Motor Vehicles Department.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48780915

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