De LISSER – Louis Stanhope

Name: DE LISSER, LOUIS STANHOPE
Initials: L S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant (Obs.)
Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Age: 27
Date of Death: 20/02/1942
Service No: 1282872
Additional information: Son of Henry C. de Lisser and Marie de Lisser, of St. Andrew, Jamaica.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Grave 2.
Cemetery: SUTTON COLDFIELD NEW CEMETERY

Blenheim IV – 17 OTU – serial Z5899 – bad weather – off track – hit balloon barrage (Birmingham Defence Area) – crashed near Baerwood, Warwickshire. Also killed Sgt W.T. Kyle, RCAF R/71497 and Sgt E. Scott, 992598.

[Source: www.WW2chat.com]

One addition to “De LISSER – Louis Stanhope”

  1. Jerome Lee adds:

    Additional info. courtesy CXX, ww2chat.com:- Training. Took off Upwood for a low-level (between 500 and 600 feet) navigation exercise, base-Gillingham-Stratford-upon-Avon-Hungerford-Cottesmore-base. While flying on the second leg, the crew strayed 15 miles off track and at 1028hrs the starboard wingtip was sliced off by a barrage balloon cable in the Birmingham defensive area. Out of control the aircraft crashed. Source: BCL Vol.7 – WR Chorley

    September 2nd, 2009 at 1:03 am

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