LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Hugh STENHOUSE
Service No: 430067
Born: Shipley, England, 3 May 1913
Enlisted in the RAAF: 4 December 1942 (at Melbourne VIC)
Unit: No. 7 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Oakington
Died: Air Operations: (No. 7 Squadron Lancaster aircraft NE123), off the French Coast, 26 August 1944, Aged 31 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Alexander Fisher Stenhouse and Lucy Stenhouse; husband of Christina McInnes Stenhouse, of Camberwell, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 261, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 130, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2224 hours on 25 August 1944 Lancaster NE123 took off from Oakington to carry out an attack on coastal batteries at Brest, France. Nothing further was heard from the aircraft and it did not return to base. Following post war enquiries and investigations, it was recorded in 1949 that the missing crew members had no known graves.
The crew members of NE123 were:
Flying Officer William Thomas Bolt (155377) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Sergeant Arthur John Cherry (1852728) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Squadron Leader Ralph Campbell Chopping DFC (70216) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Flying Officer Chester Joseph Francis Marchand (158046) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Flying Officer Roy Hensman Munsey (153903) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Flight Sergeant William Ross (1354012) (RAFVR) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Hugh Stenhouse (430067) (Mid Upper Gunner)
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, 166/38/666