Stanley Frank Burdwood DAVIES

DAVIES, Stanley Frank Burdwood

Service Number: 415124
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
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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