LEST WE FORGET
Warrant Officer Stanley Edwin SMITH
Service No: 410111
Born: Windsor VIC, 25 March 1919
Enlisted in the RAAF: 8 November 1941
Unit: No. 150 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Injuries from Aircraft Accident: (loss of No. 150 Squadron Wellington aircraft HF527 on 15 February 1944), Italy, 16 February 1944, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Bari War Cemetery, Italy
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Edwin Henry and Charlotte Sarah Smith, of Brunswick, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Coburg VIC
Remembered: Panel 130, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Wellington HF527 was lost at 2236 hours on the night of 15 February 1944, when approaching to land where it stalled and crashed at Amendola situated about 15 miles north east of Foggia, Italy. Two crew members were fatally injured while the three other three crew members were unharmed.
The crew members of HF527 were:
Flight Sergeant Robert Harold Jackson (413868) (Navigator) Uninjured, Discharged from the RAAF: 17 September 1945
Sergeant Samuel MacLean Marshall (422650) (Air Bomber) Uninjured, Discharged from the RAAF: 1 June 1948
Flight Sergeant Frank Willis Moss MID (421040) (Wireless Air Gunner) Uninjured, later Killed on Air Operations: 21 August 1944
Sergeant William Boyle (1369114) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner) Fatally injured: Died 17 February 1944
Warrant Officer Stanley Edwin Smith (410111) (Pilot) Fatally injured: Died 16 February 1944
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, 166/38/425