No.3005903, Sergeant, Stanley HARDING
Aged 19
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Stanley Harding was born in 1925 in Isleham (Newmarket Q1-1925 3B:684), the son of Alec and Elizabeth HARDING (née BROWN).
In 1939 the family were at Omega House, (Station Road ?) Isleham, father [7-5-1902] a steam waggon/heavy lorry driver; mother [10-2-1903; and William HOWARD [10-10-1914] a cowman.(3 closed records) |
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www.aircrewremembered.com has:- He was in 463 (RAAF) Sqdn Lancaster Mk 1 Ser.No. NF990, c/s JO-Q from RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire at 16:45 6th November 1944,to Gravenhorst..injured, died 25/11/19144 ..commemorated on Runnymede Mem. from www.adf-serials.com.au:- NF990 Mk. I 463 Sqn. 11/10/44 to 6/11/44. JO-Q. ORBS list 11 missions NF990 with the first Flushing 11-Nov-1944 & last Ems-Wesser Canal. The same crew flew both missions. Lost 06-07/11/44, Gravenhorst, all crew became POW's. The crew listed in the ORBS were:- Pilot F/O C J Lynch RAAF- POW, F/Engineer Sgt Haywood RAF- POW, Nav Sgt G Sunderland RAF- KIA, B/Aimer F/S R C Rodgers RAF- KIA, Wireless Op F/S E A Woolmer RAAF- POW, Mid Upper Gunner Sgt S Harding RAF bailed out & died of injuries, Rear Gunner Sgt E Evans RAF. The above explains the difference in the date of his aircraft crash and his death. NF990 crashed onto a road that leads to Lotte, NE Tecklenburg. (http://www.467463raafsquadrons.com/Pdat463/lynchcj.htm) Nothing so far has been found about where he was between 6th October and 25th November, nor where he may be buried |
photo; Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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