ALLAN, Stanley Gordon
| Service Number: | 416404 |
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| 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 (SA), 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 |
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 | |
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| 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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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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