
DAVIES, Stanley Frank Burdwood
Service Number: | 415124 |
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Enlisted: | 21 July 1941 |
Last Rank: | Flight Lieutenant |
Last Unit: | No. 1 Squadron (RAAF) |
Born: | Geraldton, Western Australia, 19 April 1918 |
Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Unknown |
Occupation: | Engineering Clerk |
Died: | Flying Accident, Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia, 7 May 1945, aged 27 years |
Cemetery: |
Taabinga Lawn Cemetery, Kingaroy, Qld Plot A Row B Grave 3 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, South Perth Wesley College Lych Gate |
Biography contributed by David Barlow
Flight Lieutenant Stanley Frank Burdwood Davies 415124 & Pilot Officer John Michael Daniel Pigott 435178 were killed when Mosquito MK6 A52-523 of Number 1 Squadron crashed 10 miles NE of Kingaroy Aerodrome, QLD while undergoing low flying and dive bombing practice. Probable cause - failure of starboard mainplane.
Biography contributed
Stanley Frank Burdwood DAVIES was born in Geraldton, Western Australia on 19th April, 1918
His parents were Alfred Thomas DAVIES & Ethel Ann GUNN who married in Geraldton in 1903
He married Mary Frances WILLS in Perth, WA on 19th April, 1941