LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Stanley Allan EDMONDS
Service No: 421187
Born: Ginninderra NSW, 30 May 1918
Enlisted in the RAAF: 31 January 1942
Unit: No. 207 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Spilsby
Died: Air Operations: (No. 207 Squadron Lancaster aircraft ME688), North Sea, 10 April 1944, Aged 25 Years
Buried: Nysogn Churchyard, Denmark
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John Allan Edmonds and Edith Edmonds, of Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Boorowa NSW
Remembered: Panel 121, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Boorowa War Memorial, Boorowa NSW
At 2126 hours on the night of 9 April 1944 Lancaster ME688 took off from Spilsby detailed to carry out a gardening mission and lay mines in Baltic waters. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. It was presumed that the aircraft was lost over the North Sea. All the crew members lost their lives.
The crew members of ME688 were:
Sergeant Robert Duffy (1343829) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flying Officer Stanley Allan Edmonds (421187) (Pilot)
Sergeant Charles Raymond Hanks (1609340) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Sergeant Thomas Heslop (1569035) (RAFVR) (Rear Gunner)
Flying Officer John MacPherson (135103) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flying Officer Alexander Corbett McLeod (J/24650) (RCAF) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Stanley Harry Mills (1852086) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
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, 166/11/126
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line