Sergeant ( Pilot ) Stanley Hudson Burley

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Sergeant ( Pilot ) Stanley Hudson Burley

Birth
Tendring, Tendring District, Essex, England
Death
9 Jan 1941 (aged 23)
Ubbergen, Berg en Dal Municipality, Gelderland, Netherlands
Burial
Mook, Mook en Middelaar Municipality, Limburg, Netherlands Add to Map
Plot
IV. B. 9.
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Stanley Hudson Burley, Son of Harry and Anne Burley, of Great Malvern, Worcestershire. Stanley was served with the RAF in WWII and lost his life when his plane, Whitley T4203 78 Squadron crashed at Ubbergen Gelderland Holland...

T4203/EY- was intercepted and shot down by a night-fighter captained by Oblt Reinhold Eckardt (6./NJG 1) The aircraft crashed through the ice-encrusted flood-water between Millingen and Kekerdom (Gelderland), Holland at 2318. Eckardt flew Bf 110 G9+NP from Deelen airfield. His Messerschmitt was substantially damaged in the encounter.

Pilot Sgt Charles Arthur Smith RAF KIA
2nd Pilot Sgt Stanley Hudson Burley RAF KIA
Observer Sgt Lawrence Dudley Norman RAF KIA
Wireless Operator Sgt Arthur William Astle RAF KIA
Rear Gunner Sgt Victor Tarrant RAF KIA

All the crew are buried in Mook War Cemetery, the Netherlands
Stanley Hudson Burley, Son of Harry and Anne Burley, of Great Malvern, Worcestershire. Stanley was served with the RAF in WWII and lost his life when his plane, Whitley T4203 78 Squadron crashed at Ubbergen Gelderland Holland...

T4203/EY- was intercepted and shot down by a night-fighter captained by Oblt Reinhold Eckardt (6./NJG 1) The aircraft crashed through the ice-encrusted flood-water between Millingen and Kekerdom (Gelderland), Holland at 2318. Eckardt flew Bf 110 G9+NP from Deelen airfield. His Messerschmitt was substantially damaged in the encounter.

Pilot Sgt Charles Arthur Smith RAF KIA
2nd Pilot Sgt Stanley Hudson Burley RAF KIA
Observer Sgt Lawrence Dudley Norman RAF KIA
Wireless Operator Sgt Arthur William Astle RAF KIA
Rear Gunner Sgt Victor Tarrant RAF KIA

All the crew are buried in Mook War Cemetery, the Netherlands

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HE WAS FAITHFUL TO HIS HEAVENLY AND HIS EARTHLY KING

Gravesite Details

754658 age 23Pilot78 Squadron RAF Shot down Operation Gelsenkirchen