Stephen Falcon Scott MCCULLAGH

MCCULLAGH, Stephen Falcon Scott

Service Number: 403754
Enlisted: 3 March 1941
Last Rank: Flying Officer
Last Unit: No. 460 Squadron (RAAF)
Born: Seattle United States of America, 11 August 1913
Home Town: Mosman, Municipality of Mosman, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Clerk
Died: Flying Battle, Kloosterhaar Netherlands, 30 March 1943, aged 29 years
Cemetery: Hardenberg Protestant Cemetery, Overijssel, Netherlands
Row A. Grave 8. Local Roll of Honour- Sydney NSW,
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Flying Officer, 403754
3 Mar 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 403754
3 Mar 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 403754
30 Mar 1943: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer, 403754, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45

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Biography contributed by Graham Padget

Flying Officer Stephen Falcon Scott McCullagh

Stephen McCullagh was a clerk with the AMP Society when he enlisted in Sydney on the 3rd of March 1941.

Stephen trained as a navigator under the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) and was posted to 460 Squadron RAAF at RAF Breighton England.

Flying Officer Stephen McCullagh was the navigator on a Lancaster bomber ED391, callsign UV-S, involved in one of the larger bomb strikes of WW2 over Berlin, during which 9 aircraft (including F.O. Steven McCullagh’s Lancaster) were brought down.

This was Steven McCullagh’s 17th operational flight as a navigator, in both Wellington and Lancaster bombers, during the air war over North West Europe.

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