Personnel Index - Detail

Name
GREEVES
First Names
Stuart Gordon
Rank
Sgt
Service
RAF
Service Number
740008
Crew Position
Pilot
Age
22
Date of Death
07/12/1940
Cemetery

 

Photographed by Malcolm Brooke
From the panel at Runnymede
 

The Runnymede image was created by artist Paul Reid using photographs taken by Jo Cockburn and Malcolm Brooke
 

6/7 December, 1940; NIGHT PATROL/AERODROMES:

After four nights of waiting, 5 of the squadron's night patrol aircraft took off to 'destroy enemy aircraft', (those attacking Bristol) in conjunction with 15 Hampdens from other squadrons.

Tragedy was to befall the squadron this night when it was later established that 2 aircraft had failed to return from operations: Sgt pilot Stuart Greeves (X3050) and crew came down in the North Sea, to the west of Ostend due to flak damage. All four members of the crew are still officially classified as missing.
 

Hampden X3050 (EA-N)
Sgt S.G. Greeves Pilot (Missing)
Sgt M.H. Davies W/OP (Missing)
Sgt E.F. Parish W/OP (Missing)
Sgt L. Young A/OB (Missing)