LEST WE FORGET
Squadron Leader Antony Charles Letteblere Akroyd STUART
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 72476 (RAFVR)
Born: Claremont WA, 1916
Enlisted in the RAF: Date unavailable
Unit: No. 76 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Holme-on-Spalding Moor
Died: Air Operations (No. 76 Squadron Halifax aircraft DK207), Netherlands, 31 August 1943, Aged 26 Years
Buried: Roermond (Kapel In’t Zand) Roman Catholic Cemetery, Limburg, Nethelands
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Charles Henry Akroyd Stuart and Helena A. Stuart. B.A. (Oxon.)
Roll of Honour: Unknown
At 0006 hours on 31 August 1943, Halifax DK207 took off from Holme-on-Spalding Moor to attack Monchengladbach, Germany. The aircraft was shot down by a night fighter and crashed at 0358 hours near Grathem, 10 kms south of Roermond, Netherlands, killing five of the crew members.
The crew members of DK207 were:
Sergeant Victor Thomas Bradley (1259352) (RAFVR) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Donald J Doe (1212749) (RAFVR) PoW
Flying Officer Kenneth Holme (139880) (RAFVR) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant Stuart Cameron MacLennan (R/172701) (RCAF) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Douglas Gordon Jackson Powell (905173) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Squadron Leader Antony Charles Letteblere Akroyd Stuart (72476) (RAFVR) (Pilot)
Sergeant William Gordon Williams (156455) (RAFVR) PoW
References:
Chorley W R, Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, Volume 4 Aircraft and Aircrew Losses 1943, Midland Counties Publications UK, 1996
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Newton, Dennis First Impact, Banner Books, Maryborough QLD 4650, 1997
WA Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages On Line
Bibliography:
Chorley W R, To See the Dawn Breaking: 76 Squadron Operations, W R Chorley Devon UK, 1981