Last Post - Pilot Officer Elwood Leroy Stevens

Source: http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers

Image from Hanover War Cemetery, Source: Commonwealth War Graves Commission

In Memory of
Pilot Officer ELWOOD LEROY STEVENS

J/95484, 102 (R.A.F.) Sqdn., Royal Canadian Air Force
who died age 23
on 05 January 1945
Son of Lyle James Stevens and Marie Marguerite Stevens, of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
Remembered with honour
HANOVER WAR CEMETERY

Commemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The image below of Pilot Officer E.L. Stevens' Headstone at Hanover is provided courtesy of The War Graves Photographic Project. http://www.twgpp.org.

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

Pilot Officer Elwood Leroy Stevens trained as a Wireless Air Gunner. He is the son of Lyle James Stevens and Marie Marguerite Stevens, of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. He crewed up with Norman Aune who attended #3 Bombing and Gunnery School Class # 72 with many of the men on this site. P/O Stevens joined Royal Air Force 102 Squadron, (Ceylon Squadron, Tentate Et Perficite) and was one of 3 Halifax crews from 102 Squadron that were shot down on a night raid over Hanover.

Details are provided in the Lost Bomber report below:

Lost Bomber Report

"Serial Range MZ787 - MZ831. 45 Halifax Mk.111, part of a batch of 360 HP61 Halifax Mk.B's delivered by English Electric Co. (Salmesbury & Preston) between 23Jun44 and 14Jul44. Halifax MZ796 was one of three RAF No.102 Squadron Halifaxes lost on this operation. See: LL597; NA602.

Airborne 1655 5Jan45 from Pocklington. Shot down by Flak, crashing 1945 about 1 km SE from Mariensee, 6 km NNE of Neustadt am R_benberge. Those killed are buried in Hanover War Cemetery.

F/O J.F.Bergman RCAF PoW;

P/O J.F.Shirley KIA

F/O C.C.Smith DFC, KIA

F/O D.W.Dale RCAF PoW

F/S E.L.Stevens RCAF, KIA

Sgt C.N.Aune RCAF, KIA

F/S H.A.Dunphy RCAF, KIA

F/O J.F.Bergman POW and F/O D.W.Dale POW, both were interned in Camp 13D. No PoW Numbers. Source: www. lostbombers.co.uk. Click here to read the entire report.

A classmate from #3 Bombing and Gunnery School Class # 72, Colin Harvey McInnes joined the RCAF and was killed in the same raid over Hanover. Click here to read about Pilot/Officer McInnes.

Apologies, we do not have the daily ops report for RAF 102 Squadron.

Click here to read the ""They Shall Grow Not Old" entry for Pilot Officer Stevens.

Click on the link to see an image of the certificate issued by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in memory of Pilot Officer Stevens.