David John STOKES

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Service Number:	437015
Enlisted:	10 October 1942
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 2 Operational Training Unit Mildura
Born:	Waikerie, South Australia, 2 September 1924
Home Town:	Walkerville, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Aircraft accident, Lake Victoria, New South Wales, Australia, 16 August 1943, aged 18 years
Cemetery:	Mildura (Nichols Point) Public Cemetery, Victoria War Graves Plot C. Row A. Grave 11, Mildura Public Cemetery, Mildura, Victoria, Australia
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hackney St Peter's College WW2 Honour Roll, North Adelaide Christ Church and Queen's College Honour Roll WW2, Walkerville St Andrew's Anglican Church WW2 Honour Roll

10 Oct 1942:	Involvement Sergeant, 437015
10 Oct 1942:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
10 Oct 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 437015
16 Aug 1943:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, No. 2 Operational Training Unit Mildura
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Son of John and Hermine Stokes of Gilberton, South Australia

Pilot of Spitfire aircraft EF588 of Number 2 Operational Training Unit which crashed near Lake Victoria, NSW

His headstone quote translates to "for God and Country"

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