Frederick Gordon Stewart

Rank:SgtNumber:969410
Ship/Rgn/Sqn No:010 Sqn RAF
Name of Rgt or Ship:Bomber Command
Died:11/05/1941Age:27
How Died:Killed in Action
Country of burial:GermanyGrave Photo:No
Cemetery or Memorial:Kiel Cemetery
Town Memorial:Not Listed
Extra Information:
Attended the Merchant Taylors School, Great Crosby, Lancs, and St. Mary's
College, Blundell Sands, Lancs.   Employed as a Salesman for H.E. Nunn Ltd,
Manchester.

Flying with 10 Sqn the crew of five took off at 22.25 hours from RAF
Leeming, Yorkshire, in a Whitley bomber - No. P5048 No. ZA-H for a bombing
run on Hamburg.    They were last heard of at 02.23 hours when they sent a
wireless message stating that they had attacked the target.   The entire
crew were lost and are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial - they were:-
Pilot - Pilot Officer P.B. Gough,  Sgt. L. Manchip,  Sgt. R. Richardson and
Sgt. D.F.F. Watson.

His father was also killed on active service on the 20/03/40 on S.S. Barn
Hill.

Local newspaper reference states Gordon Stewart.
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