LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Donald Stanley ANDERSON
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 40458
Born: Date, Location Unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date Unavailable
Unit: No. 113 Squadron (RAF), Landing Ground 68, Egypt
Died: Air Operations: (No. 113 Squadron Blenheim IV aircraft T2067), 26 November 1940, Aged 28 Years
Buried: Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Stanley Framer Anderson and Grace Anderson, of Lindfield, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Blenheim T2067, one of two Blenheims detailed to attack Bir Sofafi, took off from Landing Ground 68 (Waterloo) at 0710 hours on 26 November 1940. The aircraft was lost and its three crew members were killed.
The crew members of T2067 were:
Flying Officer Donald Stanley Anderson (40458) (RAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant George Herbert Lee (527515) (RAF) (Observer)
Sergeant Ernest Seath Young (7553800 (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator)
References:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Gunby D (David) and Pelham Temple, Royal Air Force Bomber Losses in the Middle East and Mediterranean, Volume 1 1939-1942, Midland Publishing UK, 2006