LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant John Maynard STONE
Service No: 405656
Born: Springsure QLD, 23 April 1921
Enlisted in the RAAF: 27 April 1941
Unit: RAF Station Maison Blanche, Algeria
Died: Aircraft Accident (Hurricane aircraft KX107), Algeria-Tunisia border area, 26 April 1943, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John Bailey Ellis Stone and Minnie Elizabeth Stone, of Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 12, Column 1, Malta Memorial, Malta
Remembered: Panel 130, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1300 hours on 25 April 1943 Hurricane KX107 took off from RAF Maison Blanche for Goubrine, Tunisia, on a press courier service carrying despatches. The aircraft arrived at Euston Souk El-Khemis on 26 April. The aircraft left Euston presumably to return to Maison Blanche at 1245 hours on 27 April 1943, but it failed to arrive at its destination. Maison Blanche is about 10 miles east south east of Algiers, and Euston is 15 miles south of Beja, Tunisia. Following post war enquiries and investigations, it was recorded in 1948 that Flight Sergeant Stone had no known grave.
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, 166/38/124