~~~SALIGARI, Stanley John_Australian Military Forces_AMF_Army_World War Two. (Service)~~~
Parents……Victor John Stephen Saligari and Stella Laura Louise Taylor married 1916 in Victoria.
Australian Army Service No…… V260616
Religion……Church of England
Trade/Calling……Filing Clerk
Marital status……single
Next of kin……Mother, Mrs Mrs Stella Laura Saligari, Yarra St, Warrandyte, Victoria.
Final Rank......Gunner
Final Posting......106 Australian Anti-Tank Regiment, AMF.
Fate……Discharged to Brisbane for enlistment in RAAF air crew.
~~~SALIGARI, Stanley John_Royal Australian Air Force_RAAF_World War Two_(Service)~~~
Parents……Victor John Stephen Saligari and Stella Laura Louise Taylor married 1916 in Victoria.
RAAF Service No……434842
Religion……Church of England
Trade/Calling……Clerk
Marital status……single on enlistment married whilst in service.
Next of kin……Mother, Mrs Stella Laura Saligari, Yarra St, Warrandyte, Victoria.
Enlisted in RAAF...... 13th February 1942 in Melbourne, Victoria.
Final Rank...... Flight Sergeant
Final Posting...... 467 Squadron, RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, England.
Fate......Flight Sergeant Stanley John Saligari was killed in action during air operations aboard Lancaster aircraft LL971over Germany on 22nd June 1944. Lancaster LL 971 took off from RAF Waddington at 2304 hours on the night of 21/22nd June 1944 to bomb Gelsenkirchen, Germany.Nothing was heard from the aircraft after take-off and it did not return to base. Seventeen aircraft from the Squadron took part in the raid and two of these including LL 971 failed to return. Post war it was established that the aircraft crashed at Zwillbrock, a village practically on the Dutch/German border and some 8 kms west northwest of Vreden, Germany.
Burial...... Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
The crew members of LL971 were:
Flight Lieutenant Lindsay Russell Brine (406636) (Pilot)
Flight Sergeant Dion Graeme Cranston (428098) (Air Gunner)
Flight Sergeant Vincent Donovan Luton (426778) (Navigator)
Flight Sergeant Stanley John Saligari (434842) (Air Gunner)
Sergeant Foster Nelson Smith (871196) (RAFVR) (Flight Engineer)
Flight Sergeant John Galloway Stewart (428371) (Wireless Operator Air Gunner)
*Flight Sergeant Bernard James Sutton (424893) (Bomb Aimer) Evaded Capture, Discharged from the RAAF: 10 April 1946
Commemorated...... Panel 111, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour.
Commemorated...... International Bomber Command Centre Memorial.
Commemorated......Cenotaph, Andersons Creek Cemetery, Warrandyte, Manningham City, Victoria.
*In a later report Flight Sergeant Sutton recorded: "The aircraft was shot down by a night fighter after leaving the target at about 0135 hours on the 22 June when approaching the Dutch border. The Pilot ordered put on your chutes. I had clipped on the right side of the pack when the plane seemed to blow up, and I found myself falling, so pulled my parachute and landed in a swamp. I buried my chute etc. and checked the contents of my pockets. I could see the plane burning fiercely half a mile from where I landed. I hid in the woods. The next day I walked west at dusk. I was approached by a Dutch farmer and taken to his farm where I spent the night and the following day. He then took me by bicycle to the house of a printer in Eibergen, where I spent 6 days. I then stayed in the house of a printer for 10 days. I then travelled by train to Eindhoven, and by bicycle to farm in Walkensiward. Thence to a lonely farm about 10 miles east of Llerna. Then Nuth for 10 days in the house of a school master. Then by train to Roermond for thirteen days in a wood shed in the forest. I was brought food every day by several men. On 11 August I crossed the Dutch-Belgian border near Ruglo and got to Maestricht. Finally, by train to Liege and then on foot to Seraing where I spent 4 weeks in the house of a patriot until the town was liberated. (Report was dated 11 Sept 1944)