LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Stanley Webb CRESSEY
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 120083 (RAFVR)
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 151 Maintenance Unit
Died: Prisoner of War: Borneo, 11 July 1945, Aged 47 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Robert and Ella Cressey; husband of Anna Cressey, of Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Column 447, Singapore Memorial, Singapore
Flying Officer Cressey was a Prisoner of War held successively on Java, Singapore and Borneo (Jesselton, Sandakan) and died on the infamous Sandakan Death March.
References:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/8/45