LEST WE FORGET
Lieutenant Gerald Cunliffe STONES
Service No: Not Assigned
Born: Wisbech, England, July 1882
Enlisted in the Army: 27 April 1915
Unit: No. 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps
Died: Air Operations (No. 1 Squadron BE2e aircraft A1807), Gaza, 30 May 1917, Aged 36 Years
Buried: Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Suez Canal, Egypt
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Thomas and Maria Y. Stones. Native of Wisbech, England
Place of Association: Tresco VIC
Remembered: Panel 4, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Lieutenants G. C. Stones and Lieutenant Joseph Anthony Morgan (RFC), in an artillery machine (1), were shot down by gun-fire over Gaza on May 30th; they fell within the British lines, but both were killed.
(1) BE2e aircraft A1807
Extract from Cutlack, F.M. (Frederic Morley) The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War 1914-8, Angus and Robertson Ltd Sydney, 1941 – Page 63
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record B2455, STONES GERALD CUNLIFFE
National Archives UK RAF Casualty 286403, 273065
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Williams, Sir R. (Richard) (1) These are Facts: the Autobiography of Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams KBE, CB, DSO, Australian War Memorial and Australian Government Publishing Service, 1977 – Chapters 3-9