LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Lance Anthony STEGMAN
Service No: 435689
Born: Wondai QLD, 6 June 1924
Enlisted in the RAAF: 8 July 1943
Unit: No. 163 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Wyton
Died: Air Operations: (No. 163 Squadron Mosquito aircraft KB502), Germany, 11 April 1945, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Berlin1939-1945 War Cemetery, Germany
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Harold Howell Stegman and Lillian Stegman, of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 130, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2104 hours on the night of 11 April1945 Mosquito KB502 took off from Wyton detailed to bomb Berlin. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. A Missing Research and Enquiry team later reported “the aircraft crashed near the village of Stulpe at approx 2300 hours on 11 April and both the crew members were killed. Stulpe is about 32 miles south of Berlin.”
The crew members of KB502 were:
Flying Officer William Houghton (149594) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Lance Anthony Stegman (435689) (Navigator Bomb Aimer)
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, 166/38/1029