LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Stanley Gordon ALLAN
Service No: 416404
Born: Adelaide SA, 12 August 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 23 June 1941
Unit: No. 218 Squadron (RAF), RAF Downham Market, Norfolk
Died: Air Operations (No. 218 Squadron Stirling aircraft BF565), Belgium, 29 May 1943, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Hotton War Cemetery, Hotton, Luxembourg
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Herbert George and Clare Allan, of Prospect, South Australia.
Roll of Honour: Prospect SA
Remembered: Panel 118, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: World War II Honour Roll, National War Memorial of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide
Stirling BF565 took off from RAF Downham Market at 2303 hours on the night of 29/30th May 1943, detailed to bomb Wuppertal, Germany. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft was shot down by a night fighter and crashed on a plot of land known as Kathrinemplei near Kattenis (Liege), 2 kms north north east of Eupen, Belgium.
All the crew members were killed.
The crew members of BF565 were:
Pilot Officer Stanley Gordon Allan (416404) (Pilot)
Sergeant Kenneth Munro Campbell (614965) (RAF) (Air Gunner)
Pilot Officer Earle Stanley Garai (132096) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant William Frederick Henderson (1072483) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Sergeant Donald Percy Strong (411614) (RNZAF) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant John Charles Thomas (629027) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Horton Neilson Wade (42313) (RNZAF) (Navigator)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/3/56