LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer James Walter Bryan STEVENSON
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
RAF Service No: 42158
Born: Melbourne VIC, 17 September 1915
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 266 Squadron (RAF)
Died: Air Operations: (No. 266 Squadron Spitfire I aircraft N3169), off the English Coast, 2 June 1940, Aged 24 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Rear Admiral John Bryan Stevenson CMG RAN and Olive B Stevenson of Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 10, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
On 2 June 1940, Pilot Officer Stevenson was on patrol in Spitfire N3169 and was lost during a battle with German fighter aircraft. This action was No.266 Squadron’s first enemy engagement.
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Franks, 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 Leicester UK, 1997