My other half and I have done a little internet digging about Stanley Carter,but still did not find any gazette entries etc for his post war RAF career.

I posted this info in the RAF Commands forum a few days ago.

My other half found a matching entry in the Air Force List – Air Gunners pages (good old National Library Scotland website) but without his service number.
However we persevered and think we have matched his commissioning date with the AFL ok.

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Stanley Carter (79230)

A P/O (acting pilot officer) 18/5/40
F/O (flying officer)…………15/6/41
Flt Lt (flight lieutenant)…..15/6/42

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We did not find any other gazette entries whilst he was still a serving officer (that is not to say there aren’t any of course,we sometimes struggle a bit with gazette entries)

The final entry we found was

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Relinquished commission 25/5/54
Flight Lt retaining rank of Sqn Ldr.

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He was shot down whilst an air gunner on 83 sqn – Handley Page Hampden AD916, OL-Z. 01 July 1941, Pilot Flight Lieutenant N H Svendsen DFC.
Stanley Carter was captured and became a POW.

Purely out of interest we wondered if anybody can fill in any details of his post war RAF career ?

Also his original commissioning gazette entry to A P/O did not include a previous non commissioned service number,so I also wondered about any previous service or how he came to be a gunner,did they have any directly commissioned Air Gunners in 1940 ? (I would not have thought so but happy to be wrong)