LEST WE FORGET
Flight Sergeant Stanley Alan WILSON
Service No: 419354
Born: Brunswick VIC, 19 December 1916
Enlisted in the RAAF: 18 July 1942
Unit: No. 90 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Tuddenham
Died: Air Operations: (No. 90 Squadron Stirling aircraft LJ483), France, 12 April 1944, Aged 27 Years
Buried: Roye New British Cemetery, Somme, France
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Samuel Sainsbury Wilson and Sibitha Mabel Wilson; husband of Edna May Wilson, of East Coburg, Victoria, Australia
Roll of Honour: Coburg VIC
Remembered: Panel 132, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
At 2325 hours on the night of 12 April 1944 Stirling LJ483 took off from Tuddenham detailed to carry out a pre-invasion drop to the French resistance movement. Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it failed to return to base. The aircraft crashed at Roye (Somme), France, and all the crew members were killed.
The crew members of LJ483 were:
Flight Sergeant William Wright Campbell (568247) (RAF) (Navigator)
Pilot Officer Frederick George Gardiner (54461) (RAF) (Pilot)
Warrant Officer II Leslie Allen Ralph Lowe (R/158410) (RCAF) (Air Bomber)
Sergeant Walter Eric Topping (1576629) (RAFVR) (Mid Upper Gunner)
Sergeant William Alexander Fernie Watson (1821732) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Sergeant Herbert Francis Willcocks (1391875) (RAFVR) (Wireless Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Stanley Alan Wilson (419354) (Rear Gunner)
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, 166/43/604