STILIN Albert Sgt 257 Sqn

Sgt Albert Lloyd Stilin
R90771 257 Sqn RCAF
b. 22/10/1920 Ontario
Joined RCAF 29/05/1941
d. 30/09/1942
Buried Higher Cemetery Exeter
Devon. Grave inscription reads
in Croatian. My dear Albert
You died young in a strange
country

The Lobb family captured this photo of the remains of the crashed Hurricane 1 AG217

Photograph taken very shortly after the fatal crash

We received an email from Luke Stilin in the summer of 2019 whose great uncle was Albert Stilin. Luke lives in Sault Ste Marie Ontaria Canada where Albert was born. Luke loves English magazines and had asked a friend who was visiting England before Christmas 2019 to bring some back for him to read. His friend picked the October issue of Devon Life. What a shock he had when he saw the information on Albert. He and the family knew nothing of Albert’s demise as information during the war was closely guarded. He and his family intended to visit the UK in 2020 and we wonder if this indeed happened.