LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Frank STUART
Service No: 408535
Born: Castlemaine VIC, 19 December 1911
Enlisted in the RAAF: 26 April 1941
Unit: No. 511 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 511 Squadron Liberator aircraft AL587), Bay of Biscay, 23 March 1943, Aged 31 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Norman Henry and Muriel Ella Stuart; husband of Muriel Stuart, of Mildura, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Mildura VIC
Remembered: Panel 190, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Panel 131, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Liberator AL 587 took off from Gibraltar at 1036 hours on 23 March 1943 for Lyneham, UK. At 1349 hours an SOS was received from the aircraft from its then position of 43.40N, 10.40W. Subsequent searches were unsuccessful in finding the missing aircraft which did not reach its destination. German radio stated that two four engine aircraft, one with British markings, were shot down in the Bay of Biscay on 23 March 1943. It was recorded in 1948 that all on board had been lost at sea.
On board Liberator AL587 were:
Lieutenant Colonel Lucius William Armstrong- MacDonnell (51929) (Irish Guards, British Army)
Sergeant Frederick William Boustead (1376603) (RAFVR)
Flying Officer Albert Henry Bowler (124347) (RAFVR)
Sergeant Lloyd George Burry (798507) (RAFVR)
Warrant Officer I Carlo Ernesto Ferro (R/86131) (RCAF)
Flight Lieutenant Geoffrey Thomas Raleigh Francis (88198) (RAFVR)
Flying Officer John Gordon Green (119553) (RAFVR)
Flight Sergeant William John Hough (411406) (RNZAF)
Sergeant Norman Reginald Knights (625161) (RAF)
Sergeant Richard Price Marvin (1313262) (RAFVR)
Colonel J E Marin (Free French Forces)
Flying Officer Terrence James Marriott (J/8641) (RCAF)
Flying Officer John Stanley Renouf (J/5682) (RCAF)
Lieutenant Paul Seymour Skelton (RN)
Flying Officer Owen Albert Smith (J/11116) (RCAF)
Flying Officer Frank Stuart (408535) (Pilot)
Flying Officer Ronald Sidney Tedder (11589) (RAFVR)
Sergeant Wilfred Archibald Upston (1187588) (RAFVR)
Air Vice Marshal Robert Parker Musgrave Witham CB OBE MC (RAF)
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/38/72