Date: 19th August 1942.
Unit: No. 3 Squadron R.A.F.
Type: Hurricane IIc.
Serial: BD867.
Coded: QO-Y
Location: English Channel.
Pilot: Sgt Stirling David Banks, R.C.A.F. R/72892. Age 19. Killed.
REASON FOR LOSS:
Hit by flak while making an attack on ground installations, last seen 10 miles north of Dieppe, reported missing. Stirlings body was recoverd from the sea by the Germans on the 25th September, he now rest at Abbeville Cemetery, France.
Stirling's Hurricane BD867.
Stirling David Banks,
Burial Details:
Sgt Stirling David Banks, R.C.A.F. R/72892. Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension, Plot 7. Row D. Grave 3.
Son of Ira David and Alice H Banks, of Conway (Poplar Grove) Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Research by David King (A.R.S.)
