Date of birth:

June 27th, 1921 (Finsbury/Londen Borough of Islington, United Kingdom)

Date of death:

December 29th, 1943 (Ruinerwold/Drenthe, Netherlands )

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Graves Ruinerwold
Grave: Onbekend.

Service number:

169387

Nationality:

British

Pilot Officer / Marconist of the Handley Page Halifax MKIII bomber JD314 ZA-X of No. 10 Squadron RAF. The aircraft had taken off from RAF Melbourne around 5pm for a mission to Berlin. At about 7pm, the aircraft was attacked by Oblt Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer in a Messerschmidt Bf110 night fighter from 12/NJG Leeuwarden. The Halifax crashed in which -after the bomb load had exploded- the entire crew of seven died. Of the seven crew members, six were buried in Ruinerwold cemetery on 31 December 1944. Four of them could be identified. The identity of two others could not be established with certainty and their headstone reads ‘An Airman of the 1939-1945 War’. The seventh crew member was never found. Stanley Webb's body has never been identified and he is officially listed as missing. It is therefore uncertain whether he was buried as one of the two unknowns in Ruinerwold.

Stanley Webb's name appears on the Runnymede Memorial for missing airmen, panel 133.

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• Photo 1: Jan de Jager
• - Piece of metal from the aircraft.
  - Information Sign Cemetery.
  - Accident Handley Page Halifax Mk II JD314, Wednesday 29 December 1943
  - Air Forces WW2 Casualty Stanley Webb, [RAFCommands]
  - Verliesregister Studiegroep Luchtoorlog
  - Pilot Officer Stanley Webb | War Casualty Details 1531142 | CWGC
  

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