Rev, David Youngson has submitted the following:
125572 Flying Officer Stephen ROXBURGH
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
466 Squadron
(Royal Australian Air Force)
The second eldest of five children he was born at Darlington in 1912 and shortly afterwards moved to 64 Kensington Road, Stockton-on-Tees. He was a Navigator of a Wellington Bomber HE 150 based at RAF Leconfield, East Yorkshire. He was on a mission to Dusseldorf with some 783 bombers and was hit by anti-aircraft fire over Monchengladbach which caused the plane to explode in the air on the 12th June 1943. He was aged 30. The crew were buried in the City Cemetery, Monchengladbach but in 1947 most of the bodies were reinterred in Rheinberg War Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Grave Reference 3.A.14. His name appears in the 1939-1945 Book of Remembrance in Stockton Parish Church.
Editor’s note: records indicate that ten Wellington Bombers were lost on this mission. A letter written by him some three months earlier to be opened on his death is in the Imperial War Museum Records, London.
