KITCHEN, Stanley Charles
Aircraft Lancaster Operation Kassel Germany Reason for Loss Coned by Flakscheinw. Abt. 328 at 21:37 hrs then shot down by Oblt. Heinz Wolfgang Schnaufer of 10./NJG1. Crashed at Acker, south of Dransfeld after exploding in mid-air, spreading wreckage over a wide area. TROVE - Confirmation of the death of their elder son, Flt-Sgt Stanley Charles Kitchen, has been received from the RAAF by his parents. He was the only Australian in a heavy bomber crew. Born at Ballarat, he was educated at Hyde st, Gardiner, and Melbourne High Schools, and enlisted while on clerical staff of Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation. An elder sister is a draftswoman attached to the RAAF in North Australia, and a younger brother is in the AIF..
Aircraft Lancaster Operation Kassel Germany Reason for Loss Coned by Flakscheinw. Abt. 328 at 21:37 hrs then shot down by Oblt. Heinz Wolfgang Schnaufer of 10./NJG1. Crashed at Acker, south of Dransfeld after exploding in mid-air, spreading wreckage over a wide area. TROVE - Confirmation of the death of their elder son, Flt-Sgt Stanley Charles Kitchen, has been received from the RAAF by his parents. He was the only Australian in a heavy bomber crew. Born at Ballarat, he was educated at Hyde st, Gardiner, and Melbourne High Schools, and enlisted while on clerical staff of Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation. An elder sister is a draftswoman attached to the RAAF in North Australia, and a younger brother is in the AIF..
