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STOKES, David John
Personal Details
Service Number: | 437015 |
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Enlisted: | 10 October 1942 |
Last Rank: | Sergeant |
Last Unit: | No. 2 Operational Training Unit Mildura |
Born: | Waikerie, South Australia, 2 September 1924 |
Home Town: | Walkerville, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Aircraft accident, Lake Victoria, New South Wales, Australia, 16 August 1943, aged 18 years |
Cemetery: |
Mildura (Nichols Point) Public Cemetery, Victoria War Graves Plot C. Row A. Grave 11, Mildura Public Cemetery, Mildura, Victoria, Australia |
Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, North Adelaide Christ Church and Queen's College Honour Roll, Walkerville St Andrew's Anglican Church WW2 Honour Roll |
Service History
World War 2 Service
10 Oct 1942: | Involvement Sergeant, 437015 | |
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10 Oct 1942: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
10 Oct 1942: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 437015 | |
16 Aug 1943: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, No. 2 Operational Training Unit Mildura | |
Date unknown: | Involvement |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
Son of John and Hermine Stokes of Gilberton, South Australia
Pilot of Spitfire aircraft EF588 of Number 2 Operational Training Unit which crashed near Lake Victoria, NSW
His headstone quote translates to "for God and Country"