LEST WE FORGET
Warrant Officer Stanley Fitzherbert GERTY
Service No: 411892
Born: Coonamble NSW, 9 March 1920
Enlisted in the RAAF: 21 June 1941
Unit: No. 104 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 104 Squadron Wellington aircraft LN760), near Foggia Main airfield, 19 July 1944, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Bari War Cemetery, Italy
CWGC Additional Information: Son of George Sheridan Gerty and Mabel Adele Gerty, of Blayney, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Blayney NSW
Remembered: Panel 122, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2050 hours on 19 July 1944 Wellington LN760 crashed two and a half miles north west of the Foggia Main Aerodrome, Italy. All the crew members were killed.
The crew members of LN760 were:
Warrant Officer Stanley Fitzherbert Gerty (411892) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Reginald Thomas John Griffiths (640904) (RAF) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Herbert Reuben Mann (418968) (Air Bomber)
Pilot Officer Stanley Gordon McLean Ross (J/88105) (RCAF) (Navigator)
Sergeant John Woodward (1768087) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator Air)
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 Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/15/286