View Memorial site here Flight Sergeant Royal Australian Air Force 420230 (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) Posting on Death: 454 Squadron, Berka III, Libya. Casualty - Repatriation; Aircraft - Baltimore 'O' FA 699; Place - Stampalia, Greece; Date - 10 November 1943. Shot Down After Reporting an Enemy Fleet and Aircraft Escort During a Recce Sortie to the Islands of Cos and Stampalia, Aegean Sea. The crew of Baltimore 'O' FA 699 were; GILVARRY, Joseph - (Flight Sergeant) - 414222 * JOINER, John H – (Flight Sergeant)– 409204 * NEST, Dennis Sidney – (Sergeant) – 420248 * MAY, John Alexander H– (Sergeant) – 420230 * RAAF. He is commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Campsie NSW, also his name is located at panel 105 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial. Son of Sidney Robert James May and Louisa May, of Earlwood, New South Wales, Australia.
