LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Frank STEVENSON
Service No: 421094
Born: Murwillumbah NSW, 11 January 1923
Enlisted in the RAAF: 7 December 1941
Unit: No. 450 Squadron
Died: Aircraft Accident: (No. 450 Squadron Kittyhawk aircraft), Italy, 29 May 1944, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Minturno War Cemetery, Italy
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Henry Arthur and Katherine Frances Stevenson; husband of Hildrey Phoebe Stevenson, of Balmain, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 105, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: Tweed River South Arm War Memorial, Uki NSW
On 8 November 1942, Flight Sergeant Stevenson was the pilot of Oxford X7111 which was involved in an accident in which Flying Officer Alaric Rupert Samuel White (400522) was killed.
At 1345 hours on 29 May 1944, a Kittyhawk flown by Flying Officer Altoft took off detailed to carry out an operational flight bombing tanks north east of Froginone, Italy. Five minutes after take- off, the aircraft collided in mid- air with another Kittyhawk flown by Flight Sergeant Stevenson and both pilots were killed.
The Pilots were:
Flight Sergeant Frank Stevenson (421094)
Flying Officer Robert Henry Altoft (425478)
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, 166/38/537
Register of War Memorials in New South Wales On-Line