LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Kevin Ellsmore STEWART
Service No: 400571
Born: Perth WA, 25 May 1920
Enlisted in the RAAF: 15 September 1940 (at Melbourne VIC)
Unit: No. 223 Squadron (RAF), Maaten Bagush, Egypt
Died: Air Operations: (No. 223 Squadron Baltimore aircraft AG717), Tobruk, 23 May 1942, Aged 21 Years
Buried: Tobruk War Cemetery, Libya
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Raymond Ellsmore Stewart and Pearl Estella Stewart, of St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: St Kilda VIC
Remembered: Panel 130, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 1225 hours on 23rd May 1942 Baltimore AG717 crash-landed at Tobruk due to enemy action and five of the crew members were killed.
The crew members of AG717 were:
Pilot Officer Denis Clarke Cummins (406502) (Observer) Slightly Injured, Discharged from the RAAF: 6 September 1945
Sergeant Clifford Albert Downing (616763) (RAF) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Hugh Christopher Horsfield (1178821) (RAF) (Pilot)
Pilot Officer David George Walpole Leake (406506) (Pilot) Uninjured, Killed on Air Operations: 24 October 1942
Pilot Officer David Laird Muir (80357) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Kevin Ellsmore Stewart (400571) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant William Jack Taylor (407700) (Observer)
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 Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/163/378