Every Name a Story
On Lee-on-Solent Memorial is the name of FAA/FX 77482 Petty Officer Airman George Archbold Stanton Stephenson, serving on H.M.S. Daedalus with the Royal Navy who died 04/09/1944.
He was the son of W.E.B. and Martha Stephenson, of Hirst, Ashington
Acknowledgements: Margaret Allison
Simon Glancey has added the following:
P/O Airman George Archbold Stanton Stephenson was killed when Grumman Avenger II JZ490 of 855 Squadron failed to return to Thorney Island after attacking three German destroyers while on patrol between Gravelines and Ijmuiden in the English Channel on September 4th 1944. All three crews members were reported missing, and are commemorated on the Lee-on-Solent Memorial.
Fleet Air Arm Aircraft, 1939 to 1945; R. Sturtivant; 1995; Air Britain Historians Ltd; ISBN 0851302327, page 285
George Archbold Stanton Stephenson is remembered at Ashington on A17.01 (A11.27) and A17.43, at Hirst on H62.02 and H62.04 and in our List of Ships’ Crews.