The Pilots of 41 Squadron
RAF, 1939-1946
Surnames Commencing with S
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|
Name |
SABOURIN, Jack Andrew |
| Number |
115037 |
| Rank |
Flying Officer,
Flight Lieutenant |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Brixton, London,
23 August 1916 |
| Arrived |
ca 28 October 1943
(first mentioned in ORB on this date) |
| Departed |
ca 26 January 1944
(last mentioned in ORB on this date) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Dec
1941; retired as Sqn Ldr, Sep 1966; died Greenwich, 17 December
1992 |
|
Name |
SAMOUELLE, Charles James |
| Number |
113341 |
| Rank |
Flight Lieutenant |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Islington, London,
2 February 1920 |
| Arrived |
3 October 1944 |
| Departed |
10 January 1945 |
| Decorations |
DFC (1943), Bar
to DFC (1943), OBE (1971) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Nov
1941; retired 2 Feb 1975, retaining Wg Cdr; died March 1997 |
| Name |
SAVAGE, Leslie Keith |
| Number |
164404 |
| Rank |
Flying Officer,
Flight Lieutenant |
|
Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Epsom, Surrey, 1
December 1923 |
| Arrived |
12 August 1945 |
| Departed |
31 March 1946 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Mar
1944; died Nairobi Kenya, 24 May 1978 |
|
|
Name |
SAYERS, James Edward 'Jimmy' |
| Number |
560204 |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot,
Flight Sergeant |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Woolwich, London,
10 April 1910 |
| Arrived |
22 September 1935 |
| Departed |
3 October 1940 |
| Decorations |
MiD (1942) |
| Notes |
Re-mustered to FAE
on medical grounds, Oct 1940; discharged from RAF as WO, Jan
1953; died Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, 13 March 1998 |
|
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 Aug
1942; transferred to Reserve as Flt Lt, May 1945; died Hamilton,
New Zealand, 22 March 1994 |
|
Name |
SCOON, Jellicoe Esslemonte Norbert Cecil |
| Number |
1803977 |
| Rank |
Flight Sergeant |
| Nationality |
Trinidadian |
| Born |
Grenada, 14 November
1920 |
| Arrived |
ca. March 1943 |
| Departed |
ca. April 1943 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Mar
1945; died Bedford, Bedfordshire, 9 November 1994 |
|
Name |
SCOTT, Peter Frederick 'Scotty' |
| Number |
1624619 |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Hull, Yorkshire,
2 September 1923 |
| Arrived |
27 March 1945 |
| Departed |
30 January 1946 |
| Notes |
Released Jan 1946;
died Hull, 28 February 2006 |
|
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 Dec
1941; KIFA 22 October 1942, aged 22; three Spitfires were lost
simultaneously in bad weather, when they flew in formation into
Tarren Hendre near Towyn, Wales, killing Fg Off Scott, &
Flt Lts F. N. Gillitt & R. Harrison; son of Oswald A., DSO, &
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 |
| Born |
Dundee, Scotland, 14 June 1915 |
| Arrived |
13 July 1939 |
| Departed |
8 September 1940 |
| Notes |
KIA off Dover, 8
September 1940, aged 25; son of William M. & Katherine E.
Scott, of South Kensington, London; buried in Dundee Western
Cemetery, Angus, Scotland, Section 19, Grave 25C |
|
Name |
SHAVER, Clarance Lyall |
| Number |
R.69239 |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot |
| Nationality |
Canadian |
| Born |
Avonmore, Ont, Canada, 11 September 1918 |
| Arrived |
30 December 1941 |
| Departed |
19 February 1942 |
| Notes |
Enlisted Oct 1940;
commissioned (J.17058), Dec 1942; AA/KIA as Flt Lt (Flt Cdr)
in 439 Sqn Typhoon MN144 following attack on railway yards
at Buldern, Germany, 2 March 1945, aged 26; buried Grave 21.
H. 18., Reichswald Forest War Cemetery; Germany; son of
Clarence & Bessie Shaver & husband of Catherine P. Shaver of
Toronto, Ont, Canada |
|
Name |
SHEA, David John |
| Number |
J.22158 |
| Rank |
Flying Officer |
| Nationality |
Canadian |
| Born |
Hamilton, Ont, Canada, 3 July 1923 |
| Arrived |
19 January 1943 |
| Departed |
13 March 1944 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Dec
1942; KIFA, Lympne, 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 |
7 March 1945 |
| Departed |
22 January 1946 |
| Decorations |
DFC (1942), 1st
Bar to DFC (1943), 2nd Bar to DFC (1945) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Aug
1941; OC 41 Sqn, 8 Apr 1945-22 Jan 1946; KIFA, Wunsdorf, 22
January 1946, aged 26; son of William & Rosetta Shepherd
of Edinburgh; buried in Hamburg Cemetery, Germany, Grave 5A,
G9 |
|
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 Apr
1940; retired Dec 1959, retaining Wg Cdr; died Bottesford, Leics,
27 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 |
SIMPSON, Norman ‘Pim’ |
| Number |
198357 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Unknown |
| Arrived |
12 August 1945 |
| Departed |
31 March 1946 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Apr
1945; demobilised Apr 1946, but rejoined RAFVR as Fg Off, May
1951; relinquished commission as Flt Lt, May 1961 |
|
| Name |
SINGLETON, John |
| Number |
Unknown |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot |
| Nationality |
Unknown |
| Born |
Unknown |
| Arrived |
7 January 1946 |
| Departed |
31 March 1946 |
| Notes |
Nothing further
known of this pilot; details sought |
|
|
Name |
SISSONS, Kenneth Norman Ramon |
| Number |
1151316 |
| Rank |
Sergeant Pilot |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Nottingham, 27 July
1917 |
| Arrived |
ca 13 March 1941
(First mentioned in ORB on this date) |
| Departed |
5 May 1941 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Mar
1942; released as Sqn Ldr, 1945; died Langton Green, Kent, 14
May 1978 |
|
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 the UK) |
| Term 2 |
ca 24 September
1943-23 August 1944 |
| Notes |
Force-landed north
of Hesdin, France, with fuel cock problems and captured 23 August
1944; liberated by Russians on 22 Apr 45, but not released until
exchanged for Russian POWs on 20 May 1945; died Penzance, Cornwall,
24 August 1994 |
|
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 Mar
1941; DOW after an attack on Hal Far as aircraft were landing
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 |
28 July 1941 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Dec
1943; demobilised 1945 but rejoined RAF 1949 as flying instructor &
subsequently controller; retired from RAF as Flt Lt, May 1965, &
entered theological college; became Padre in Anglican Church;
died Victoria, Australia, 27 November 1996 |
|
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 |
Seriously injured
in a ground collision with a landing aircraft in Celle, Germany,
on 24 April 1945; died Isle of Wight, 2 July 1985 |
|
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 |
2 May 1944 |
| Decorations |
DFC (1944), Russian
Medal of Valour (1944) |
| Notes |
Discharged 4 Dec
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. 25 November
1943 (last mentioned on this date) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Sep
1941; nothing known about this pilot after his departure from
41 Sqn; died Bromley, Jul 1977 |
|
Name |
SMITH, Roy David Austen |
| Number |
164845 |
| Rank |
Flying Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Melbourne, Australia,
28 June 1924 |
| Arrived |
27 March 1945 |
| Departed |
31 March 1946 |
| Decorations |
DFC (Malaya, 1953),
CB (1975), KBE (1979), CVO (1993) |
| Notes |
Name changed to
hyphenated Austen-Smith ca 1966; retired as Air Marshal, 1 Nov
81; Gentleman Usher to the Queen, 1982-95; died Wiveton, Norfolk,
27 Mar 2021 |
|
Name |
SOLAK, Jerzy Jakub 'George' |
| Number |
76766 |
| Rank |
Flying Officer,
Flight Lieutenant |
| 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 Mar
1941; shot down southwest of Caen, France, 10 Aug 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 |
2 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 OC, 350 (Belgian) Sqn, Germany, 26 Feb 1945, but escaped
five weeks later & returned to unit; shot down again 19
Apr 1945 & held until liberated by advancing British troops
on 4 May 1945; died Oldham, Hampshire, 8 February 2009 |
|
Name |
SPURR, Lawrence Esmond 'Larry' |
| Number |
R.176504 |
| Rank |
Flight Sergeant |
| Nationality |
Canadian |
| Born |
Middleton, NS, Canada,
23 June 1923 |
| Arrived |
14 June 1944 |
| Departed |
4 August 1944 |
| Decorations |
MiD (1946), DFC
(U.S.) 1952 |
| Notes |
Commissioned Aug
1944; remained in RCAF after war and served in Korean War; released
from RCAF, Dec 1970; died in motor vehicle accident, Lunenburg,
NS, Canada, 26 January 1973 |
|
Name |
STAPLETON, William 'Bill' |
| Number |
41078 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Brentford, Middlesex,
27 June 1920 |
| Arrived |
30 November 1939 |
| Departed |
1 June 1940 |
| Decorations |
OBE (1965) |
| Notes |
Commissioned, Aug
1938; shot down over Dunkirk & captured, 1 June 1940; granted
permanent commission in RAF, Sep 1945; retired Sep 1964, retaining
Wg Cdr |
|
Name |
STEPHENS, Ronald Vincent |
| Number |
420631 |
| Rank |
Flight Sergeant |
| Nationality |
Australian |
| Born |
Batemans Bay, NSW,
Australia, 12 March 1921 |
| Arrived |
21 March 1944 |
| Departed |
8 May 1944 |
| Decorations |
MiD (1946) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Aug
1944; discharged as Flying Officer, 29 Nov 1945; died Lake Cathie
NSW, 24 August 2004 |
|
Name |
STEPP, Malta Leon
Jr. |
| Number |
RAF No. 67579 (USAAC
No. O-885155) |
| Rank |
Flight Lieutenant |
| Nationality |
American in RAFVR |
| Born |
San Jose, California,
USA, 30 October 1919 |
| Arrived |
23 May 1942 |
| Departed |
26 September 1942 |
| Notes |
Transferred to USAAC,
Sep 1942; KIFA in Thunderbolt of
2906 Observer Grp,
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 'Steve' |
| Number |
1348985 |
| Rank |
Flight Sergeant,
Warrant Officer |
| Nationality |
British (Scottish) |
| Born |
Glasgow, Scotland,
2 May 1922 |
| Arrived |
21 December 1943 |
| Departed |
6 August 1945 |
| Decorations |
DFC (1945), CPM
(Malaya, 1952) |
| Notes |
Worked in Malaya
after War, where drafted into Malaya Auxiliary Police as Hon
Inspector during Malayan Emergency, 1948-60; died Perth, Scotland,
10 February 2003 |
|
Name |
STILL, James Webster |
| Number |
655535 |
| Rank |
Warrant Officer
/ Pilot Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Edinburgh, Scotland,
14 September 1920 |
| Arrived |
5 July 1943 |
| Departed |
ca 10 January 1944
(last mentioned on this date) |
| Decorations |
MiD (1945) |
| Notes |
Commissioned Oct
1943; transferred to RAuxAF, Aug 1950; transferred to RAuxAFRO,
Aug 1955, relinquished commission as Flt Lt, Aug 1960 |
|
Name |
STOK, Bram van der 'Bob' & 'Van' |
| Number |
106346 |
| Rank |
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 Cross of Merit
(1942), Dutch Flying Cross (1942), Dutch Bronze Cross (1944),
Polish Cross of Valour (1945), Dutch Bronze Lion (1946), Dutch
Officer of the Order of Leopold 2nd Class (1948), Belgian Croix
de Guerre 1940 (1948), British MBE (1948) |
| Notes |
Arrived in UK, June
1941; shot down & captured, 12 April 1942; one of only three
men to successfully escape & return to UK from "The
Great Escape", 24 Mar 1944; retired Dec 1946, emigrated
to USA, 1952; became U.S. citizen, 1957; died Virginia Beach,
USA, 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 Sep
1943; retired as Flt Lt, Jun 1955; died Leigh, Dorset, 11
June 1977 |
|
Name |
STOWE, William North 'Bill' |
| Number |
J.10643 |
| Rank |
Flight Lieutenant |
| Nationality |
Canadian |
| Born |
Edmonton, Alberta,
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
unknown) |
| Notes |
Remained in post-war
RCAF Auxiliary; Wg Cdr, Jun 1952; died Toronto, Canada, 28 October
2005 |
|
Name |
STRONG, Philip Dennis James |
| Number |
37699 |
| Rank |
Pilot Officer, Flying
Officer |
| Nationality |
British |
| Born |
Medway, Kent, 1
January 1912 |
| Term 1 |
10 January 1937-November
1938 |
| Term 2 |
25-26 November 1939 |
| Notes |
Commissioned, Jan
1936; remained in RAF after war & retired as Flt Lt, Apr
1958; died Isle of Wight, January 1972 |
|
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 |
10 April 1942 |
| Notes |
Joined RAF, Mar 1934; commissioned
Oct 1941; retired Apr 1970, retaining Wg Cdr; died
Crowthorne, Berks, 4 January
2011 |
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