James McLaren STIRLING

STIRLING, James McLaren

Service Number: 405427
Enlisted: 29 March 1941
Last Rank: Pilot Officer
Last Unit: No. 75 Squadron (RAAF)
Born: Pittsworth, Queensland, Australia, 8 April 1921
Home Town: Pittsworth, Toowoomba, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Flying Battle, New Guinea, 27 January 1944, aged 22 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Lae Memorial, Lae, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea Panel 6
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lae Memorial, Pittsworth WW2 Honour Dead Roll of Honour, Wahroonga Knox Grammar School Old Boys' War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Pilot Officer, 405427
29 Mar 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force
29 Mar 1941: Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 405427, No. 75 Squadron (RAAF)
27 Jan 1944: Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Pilot Officer, 405427, No. 75 Squadron (RAAF), Air War SW Pacific 1941-45

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Biography contributed by David Barlow

75SQN RAAF Kittyhawk aircraft A29-103 flown by Pilot Officer Stirling 405427 and A29-530 flown by Flying Officer Hunt 412078 collided during strafing operations against enemy positions and crashed near Jomba (Yomba) Island which is about two miles south-east of Madang, New Guinea

Flying Officer Hunt is buried in Lae War Cemetery

Pilot Officer Stirling is commemorated on the Lae Memorial as his body was not recovered. He has an entry in the book "Those Other Eagles" by Christopher Shores

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