The Pilots of 41 Squadron RAF, 1939-1945

Surnames Commencing with S


Name SABOURIN, Jack Andrew
Number 115037
Rank Flying Officer, Flight Lieutenant
Nationality British
Born London, 23 August 1916
Arrived Prior to December 1943
Departed ca. January 1944
Notes Commissioned December 1941; retired 3 September 1966, retaining Squadron Leader

Name SAMOUELLE, Charles James
Number 113341
Rank Flying Officer
Nationality British
Born London, 2 February 1920
Arrived 3 October 1944
Departed 10 January 1945
Decorations DFC (1943), Bar to DFC (1943), OBE (1971)
Notes Commissioned November 1941; retired 2 February 1975, retaining Wing Commander

Name SAYERS, James Edgar 'Jimmy'
Number 560204
Rank Sergeant Pilot, Flight Sergeant
Nationality British
Born 10 April 1910
Arrived September 1935
Departed 3 October 1940
Notes Re-mustered to engine fitter, October 1940; discharged from RAF as Warrant Officer, January 1953

Name SCHOU, Kenneth Victor James
Number 412744
Rank Flight Sergeant
Nationality New Zealand
Born Dannevirke, New Zealand, 17 May 1914
Arrived 21 April 1942
Departed 30 September 1942
Notes Commissioned August 1942; transferred to Reserve as Flight Lieutenant, May 1945; died Hamilton, New Zealand, 22 March 1994

Name SCOON, Jellicoe Esslemonte Norbert Cecil
Number 1803977
Rank Flight Sergeant
Nationality Trinidad
Born [Location?], 14 November 1920
Arrived 8 March [or April] 1943
Departed ca. April 1943
Notes Commissioned March 1945, flying with 198 Squadron (Typhoon) at the end of the War

Name SCOTT, Peter F. [middle name?]
Number 1624619
Rank Sergeant Pilot
Nationality British
Born Hull, 2 September 1923
Arrived 27 March 1945
Departed 30 January 1946
Notes Released, 30 January 1946; see also: 41 Squadron and the End of the War in Europe

Name SCOTT, Thomas Roland
Number 115515
Rank Flying Officer
Nationality British
Born Berne, Switzerland, 13 October 1922
Arrived 21 July 1942
Departed 22 October 1942
Notes Commissioned December 1941; KIFA 22 October 1942, aged 22; three Spitfires were lost simultaneously in bad weather, when they flew in formation into Tarren Hendre hill near Towyn, Menioneth, Wales, killing Flg. Off. Scott, & Flt. Lts. F. N. Gillitt & R. Harrison; son of Oswald A., D.S.O., & Hermione M. Scott, of Winchester; buried in Portmadoc Public Cemetery, Caernarvonshire, Wales, Grave 602

Name SCOTT, William John Moir 'Jack' & 'Scotty'
Number 70611
Rank Pilot Officer, Flying Officer
Nationality British (Scottish)
Born Dundee, Scotland, 14 June 1915
Arrived 13 July 1939
Departed 8 September 1940
Notes KIA off Dover, 8 September 1940, aged 25. He was the son of William Moir Scott and Katherine Ellen Scott, of South Kensington, London, and is buried in Dundee Western Cemetery, Angus, Scotland, Section 19, Grave 25C

Name SHEA, David John
Number J.22158
Rank Flying Officer
Nationality Canadian
Born Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 3 July 1924
Arrived 19 January 1943
Departed 13 March 1944
Notes Commissioned December 1942; KIFA 13 March 1944, aged 20; son of John J. & Kathleen Shea of Hamilton, Ont., Canada; buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey, 44. I. 10

Name SHELLEY, Francis Pentland
Number 402408
Rank Flight Sergeant
Nationality Australian
Born Branxton, NSW, Australia, 8 May 1919
Arrived 21 October 1941
Departed 15 January 1942
Notes FTR/KIA, Milne Bay, Papua & New Guinea, 11 August 1942, aged 23; son of Cecil H. & Irene H. Shelley of Manly, NSW; remembered on Panel 9 of the Port Moresby Memorial, Papua & New Guinea

Name SHEPHERD, John Bean 'Shep'
Number 104447
Rank Flight Lieutenant, Squadron Leader
Nationality British
Born Edinburgh, Scotland, 20 July 1919
Arrived 3 March 1945
Departed 22 January 1946
Decorations DFC (1942), 1st Bar to DFC (1943), 2nd Bar to DFC (1945)
Notes Commissioned August 1941; CO, 8 April 1945-22 January 1946; KIFA at Wunsdorf, 22 January 1946, aged 26; son of William & Rosetta Shepherd of Edinburgh; buried in Hamburg Cemetery, Germany, Grave 5A, G9; see also 41 Squadron's Final Six Months; December 1944 to May 1945 & 41 Squadron and the End of the War in Europe

Name SHIPMAN, Edward Andrew 'Shippy'
Number 512770 / 43364
Rank Sergeant Pilot, Flight Sergeant / Pilot Officer
Nationality British
Born Stathern, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, 9 December 1909
Arrived 10 October 1936
Departed 1 September 1940
Decorations AFC (1945)
Notes Commissioned April 1940; retired December 1959, retaining Wing Commander; died August 1998

Name SHORT, Roger Lee
Number 1333690
Rank Flight Sergeant
Nationality British
Born Sunderland, Durham, 28 October 1921
Arrived 8 June 1944
Departed 17 July 1944
Notes KIFA in mid-air collision with Flt. Sgt. C. Oddy, Lympne, Kent, 17 July 1944, aged 21; son of Henry M. & Elizabeth Short, & husband of Dorothy E. Short of South Ruislip, Middlesex; buried in Hawkinge Cemetery, Kent, Plot O, Grave 80

Name SISSONS, Kenneth Norman Ramon
Number 1151316
Rank Sergeant Pilot
Nationality British
Born Unknown
Arrived 13 March 1941 (First mentioned in ORB on this date)
Departed 5 May 1941
Notes Commissioned March 1942

Name SLACK, Thomas Adams Hume
Number 112428
Rank Pilot Officer, Flying Officer, Flight Lieutenant
Nationality British
Born Micheldever, Hampshire, 29 April 1916
Term 1 14 April 1942-18 Jul 1943 (shot down, but evaded and returned to UK)
Term 2 September 1943-23 August 1944
Notes Cartoonist of some talent, who drew caricatures of many of 41 Squadron's pilots; force-landed north of Hesdin, France, with fuel cock problems and captured 23 August 1944; see also Selected Entries from "Fighter Command War Diaries", 3 October 1943 - 27 June 1944 and Tom Slack's Caricatures

Name SLY, Raymond Harold Charles
Number 402260
Rank Pilot Officer
Nationality Australian
Born Burwood, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 1 October 1921
Arrived 29 August 1941
Departed 2 September 1941
Notes Commissioned March 1941; DOW after an attack on is aircraft whilst landing at Malta on arrival from a ferry flight from the aircraft carrier USS 'Wasp', 9 May 1942, aged 20; son of Harold & Ivy J. Sly of Summer Hill, NSW; buried in Officers' Section, Plot E, Coll. Grave 2, of Malta (Capuccini) Naval Cemetery, Malta

Name SMALLBONE, Denys George
Number 1253160
Rank Sergeant Pilot
Nationality British
Born Woodford Bridge, Essex, 14 March 1920
Arrived 14 July 1941
Departed ca. July 1941
Notes Commissioned December 1943; demobbed at end of War but later rejoined RAF and became a flying instructor and subsequently controller; retired from RAF as Flight Lieutenant, May 1965, and entered theological college; became Padre

Name SMART, Lionel Harry
Number 1338427
Rank Flight Sergeant
Nationality British
Born Chorley Wood, Hertfordshire, 9 November 1922
Arrived 1 February 1945
Departed 24 April 1945
Notes Posted away from 41 Squadron after being seriously injured in a ground collision with a landing aircraft in Celle, Germany, on 24 April 1945

Name SMITH, Donald Hamilton
Number 407256
Rank Flying Officer, Flight Lieutenant
Nationality Australian
Born Victor Harbour, South Australia, 18 August 1915
Arrived 23 May 1943
Departed ca. May 1944
Decorations DFC (1944), Russian Medal of Valour (1944)
Notes Discharged 4 December 1945

Name SMITH, John Brittain
Number 111494
Rank Flying Officer, Flight Lieutenant
Nationality British
Born Leigh, Lancashire, 8 March 1921
Arrived 9 September 1943
Departed ca. December 1943
Notes Commissioned September 1941

Name SMITH, Roy David Austen
Number 164845
Rank Flying Officer
Nationality British
Born Melbourne, Australia, 28 June 1924
Arrived 27 March 1945
Departed ca. 1 April 1946
Decorations DFC (Malaya, 1953), CB (1975), KBE (1979), CVO (1993)
Notes Name changed to hyphenated Austen-Smith between 1966-1970; retired 1 November 1981; see also: 41 Squadron and the End of the War in Europe

Name SOLAK, Jerzy Jakub 'George'
Number 76766
Rank Flying Officer
Nationality Polish
Born Przecław, Krakow, Poland, 22 August 1910
Arrived 9 April 1943
Departed 12 October 1943
Decorations KW [Krzyz Walecznych / Cross of Valour] (1941), 1st Bar to KW (1943), 2nd Bar to KW (1943), SKVM [Srebrny Krzyż Virtuti Militari / Silver Cross of Virtuti Militari] (1945)
Notes Commissioned March 1941; shot down southwest of Caen, France, 10 August 1944, captured but escaped; emigrated to USA, 1946; died 5 March 2002

Name SPENCER, Terence 'Terry'
Number 47269
Rank Flight Lieutenant
Nationality British
Born Bedford, 8 March 1918
Arrived 1 May 1944
Departed 3 January 1945
Decorations DFC (1945), Belgian CdG with 1940 Palm (1947), Territorial Efficiency Medal (1947)
Notes Shot down and captured whilst CO of 350 (Belgian) Squadron, Germany, 26 February 1945, but escaped five weeks later and returned to unit; shot down again 19 April 1945 and held until liberated by advancing British troops on 4 May 1945; died Oldham, Hants., 8 February 2009. See also his Obituary in The Times (UK).

Name SPURR, Lawrence Esmond 'Larry'
Number R.176504
Rank Flight Sergeant
Nationality Canadian
Born Middleton, NS, Canada, 23 June 1923
Arrived 13 June 1944
Departed 2 August 1944
Decorations MiD (1946)
Notes Commissioned August 1944; remained in RCAF after war and flew in Korean War, where he was awarded the US DFC; released from RCAF December 1970; died in motor vehicle accident, January 1973

Name STAPLETON, William 'Bill'
Number 41078
Rank Pilot Officer
Nationality British
Born 27 June 1920
Arrived 30 November 1939
Departed 1 June 1940
Decorations OBE (1965)
Notes Granted Short Service Commission, August 1938; shot down and captured over Dunkirk, 1 June 1940; granted permanent commissioned in RAF, September 1945; retired September 1964, retaining Wing Commander

Name STEPHENS, Ronald Vincent
Number 420631
Rank Flight Sergeant
Nationality Australian
Born Batemans Bay, NSW, Australia, 12 March 1921
Arrived 21 March 1944
Departed ca. May 1944
Notes Discharged 29 November 1945

Name STEPP, Malta Leon Jr.
Number RAF No. 67579; USAAC No. O-885155
Rank Flight Lieutenant
Nationality American
Born San Jose, California, USA, 30 October 1919
Arrived 23 May 1942
Departed 26 September 1942
Notes Transferred to USAAC, September 1942; believed KIFA in Thunderbolt of 2906 Observer Group, Cats Tor, Cheshire, 30 September 1943; initially buried in UK, but moved to USA and re-interred in Section B, Site 741-L, Golden Gate National Cemetery, California, USA, January 1949

Name STEVENSON, Ian Turnbull 'Jock'
Number 1348985
Rank Flight Sergeant, Warrant Officer
Nationality British
Born Glasgow, Scotland, 2 May 1922
Arrived 21 December 1943
Departed 6 August 1945
Decorations DFC (1945)
Notes See also 41 Squadron and the End of the War in Europe

Name STILL, James Webster
Number 655535
Rank Warrant Officer
Nationality British
Born Edinburgh, Scotland, 14 September 1920
Arrived 5 July 1943
Departed After 13 October 1943
Decorations MiD (1945)
Notes Commissioned October 1943; transferred to RAuxAF, August 1950; transferred to RAuxAFRO, August 1955, relinquished commission as Flight Lieutenant, August 1960

Name STOK, Bram van der 'Bob' & 'Van'
Number 106346
Rank Pilot Officer, Flying Officer, Flight Lieutenant
Nationality Dutch
Born Pladjoe, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), 13 October 1915
Arrived 9 December 1941
Departed 12 April 1942
Decorations Dutch Bronze Cross (1942), MBE (1948)
Notes Arrived in UK, June 1941; shot down & captured, 12 April 1942; one of only three men to successfully escape during "The Great Escape", 24 March 1944, & returned to UK; retired December 1946 & emigrated to USA, 1951; died 8 February 1993

Name STONIER, Jack
Number 610635
Rank Flight Sergeant
Nationality British
Born Wigan, Lancashire, 20 November 1920
Arrived 14 July 1942
Departed 27 April 1943
Decorations AFC (1945)
Notes Commissioned September 1943; retired June 1955, retaining Flight Lieutenant

Name STOWE, William North 'Bill'
Number J.10643
Rank Flight Lieutenant
Nationality Canadian
Born Edmonton, Canada, 2 November 1922
Term 1 24 February 1944-24 April 1945
Term 2 9 May 1945-20 June 1945
Decorations DFC (1945), CD (date?)
Notes Remained in post-war RCAF Auxiliary, attaining Wing Commander in June 1952; died October 2005; see also: 41 Squadron and the End of the War in Europe

Name STRONG, Philip Dennis James
Number 37699
Rank Pilot Officer, Flying Officer
Nationality British
Born 30 September 1913
Term 1 10 January 1937-November 1938
Term 2 25-26 November 1939
Notes Commissioned in RAF, January 1936; remained in RAF after war and retired after 1954

Name SWANWICK, George William
Number 604206 / 118533
Rank Sergeant Pilot, Flight Sergeant / Pilot Officer
Nationality British
Born New York, USA, 10 November 1915
Arrived 21 December 1940
Departed ca. February 1942
Notes Joined RAF as Air Gunner, March 1934; accepted for pilot training, October 1938; commissioned October 1941; retired April 1970, retaining Wing Commander

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