Name
Stanley Wilson Gunton
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
11/05/1945
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Warrant Officer
506987
Royal Air Force
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HITCHIN CEMETERY
N.W. Extn. Grave 397.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
"UNTIL THE DAY BREAK"
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
Originally he came from Norwich. He joined the RAF. in 1929 and had served in many parts of the world. He was discharged from the RAF. in 1944 on medical grounds and these eventually led to his death in a Sanatorium in Ware. The probability is that he had contracted tuberculosis.
He was buried in Hitchin Cemetery and his Commonwealth War Graves Commission stone at Grave 397 states that his Service Number was 506987 and it has the additional inscription "Until the day break".
His home was at 22, Strathmore Ave, Hitchin. In 1935 he had married Miss Rose F. Collett of Ickleford Road, Hitchin and they had two children. One child was Brian aged eight and the other was Valerie who was aged five at the time of their father's death. His parents were Mr and Mrs A.J. Gunton.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Paul Johnson - local historian
