LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Neville George STOKES
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 60345 (RAF)
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 97 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Coningsby, Lincolnshire
Died: Air Operations: (No. 97 Squadron Manchester I aircraft R5795), off Brest, France, 18 December 1941, Aged 28 Years
Buried: Unrecovered
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Richard and Pearl P. C. Stokes, of Blakehurst, New South Wales, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Panel 34, Runnymede Memorial, Surrey UK
Manchester R5795 took off at from RAF Station Waddington at 0934 hours on 18 December 1941 to attach Brest. The aircraft was shot down by Me109s and came down in the sea roughly 6 kms off Brest.
The crew members of R5795 were:
Sergeant Robert John Conn (98923) (RAFVR) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant George Gardiner Fell (641560) (RAF) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Morton Ralph Heinish (R/76013) (RCAF) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Isaac Hewitt (R/64413) (RCAF) PoW
Pilot Officer Neville George Stokes (60345) (RAF) (Pilot)
Sergeant Gwynne Price Thomas (400298) PoW, Discharged from the RAAF: 31 January 1946
Warrant Officer Thomas Mitchell Wade (402283) PoW, Discharged from the RAAF: 1 November 1945
References:
Chorley W R Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 2 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1941, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1993
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 163/57/151