LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Eric William Stanton SCOTT
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 40852 (RAF)
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 616 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 616 Squadron Spitfire I aircraft N3130), Essex, 4 June 1940, Aged 20 Years
Buried: Southend-on-Sea (Sutton Road) Cemetery, Essex
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Alexander Campbell Scott and Violet May Scott, of Canberra. Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Pilot Officer Scott crashed at Rochford in poor weather while returning from patrol.
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Franks, N (Norman L R), Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 1 Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1939-1941, Midland Publishing Limited UK, 1997