Stanley Edgar Stevens  Photo: Mogens Jeppesen     Updated: 18 MAR 2022
                                                                            
Airman: a113027.htm Surname: Stevens Init: S E Rank: F/Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 218

P_link: p103.htm Plane: STI W7615 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: Sea S of Ærø

Crash_d: d200842 Buried_d: b220842 C_link: c113.htm At_Next: Aabenraa, R 1-3

Den 20. august 1942 styrtede STI W7615 i havet (måske omkring her) i forbindelse med en minelægningsoperation til Kiel Havn. Se Minelægningsområder. Tog afsted 20.25 den 20. august 1942 fra
RAF Downham Market. 4 fly mistet fra denne squadron den nat. (Kilde: p103MACR.)

S. E. Stevens blev fundet som lig i Vemmingbund (omkring her) den 21. september 1942.
Han blev begravet i Aabenraa den følgende dag. (Kilde: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Observer) Stanley Edgar Stevens, 21 år, var søn af Edgar og May Stevens,
Portishead, Somerset, United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)

1 flyver fra STI W7615 blev begravet i Odense, 1 i Aabenraa og 1 i Kiel i Tyskland.
4 flyvere har ingen kendt grav. 7 flyvere.

On 20 August 1942 STI W7615 crashed into the sea (maybe about here) in connection with a minelaying operation to Kiel Harbour. See Minelaying areas. Left 20:25 20 August 1942 from RAF Downham Market.
4 lost from squadron that night. (Source: p103MACR.). Only STI W7615 is on www.airmen.dk.

On 21 September 1942 the body of S. E. Stevens was found in Vemmingbund (about here).
On the following day he was buried in Aabenraa. (Source: FAF)

Flight Sergeant (Observer) Stanley Edgar Stevens, 21, was the son of Edgar and May Stevens,
of Portishead, Somerset, United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He died that we might live. Christ died that we all might have eternal life.

He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 2,Panel 247. 
1 airman from STI W7615 was buried in Odense, 1 in Aabenraa and 1 in Kiel in Germany.
4 airmen have no known grave.
See No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron RAF * No. 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron Association * Short Stirling 
Stirling I W7615 HA-M took off from RAF Downham Market at 20:50 on 20 AUG 1942.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.)  7 airmen.