A Poppy
A Poppy

Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Memorials -
- Ashey Cemetery : Hylton Archie Stares -

Location

In Ashey Cemetery, Ashey, Isle of Wight
 
Description

Additional inscription on family tombstone.
Headstone

Ashey Cemetery : H A Stares
 
Ashey Cemetery : H A Stares
 
Inscription


[...] WIFE
DOROTHY
KATHLEEN
STARES
PASSED TO REST
MAY 31ST 1936
AGED 39 YEARS
"ABIDE WITH ME"

ALSO OF OUR ONLY SON
HYLTON ARCHIE STARES
FLIGHT SERGT R.A.F.V.R.
AND BELOVED HUSBAND OF RENE, PRESUMED
KILLED ON AIR OPERATIONS
OVER THE INDIAN OCEAN
JULY 8TH 1944 AGED 20
AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM,
NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN


 
Further Information

Flt Sgt Stares was with 209 Sqn which at the time of his death was operating PBY Catalina aircraft on patrol over the Indian Ocean, from bases in East Africa.

He is commemorated on the Alamein memorial.

CWGC record ...


 
RSHG record ...


 
 

 
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