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Sergeant Ashley Creswick Steer

Family/Last name:
Steer
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Ashley Creswick
Place of birth:
Albury NSW
Date of birth:
25/2/1914
Nationality:
Australia
Service number:
404774
Military Unit:
Royal Australian Air Force, 49 Squadron (RAAF)
Rank when captured:
Sergeant
Date of capture:
5/9/1942
POW number:
27004
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Data sources
Service Records, The National Archives (UK), Contemporary Account/Diary, The National Archives AustraliaOther Sources ( Direct contact with relatives.)
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The full story of Sgt A. Steer’s capture may be read from his Service Records here – https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=5522608 . This is also reported in “The RAAF POWs of LAMSDORF”.

Briefly put, the aircraft he was Wireless Operator/Air Gunner in was attacked by a JU88, pilot gave an order to prepare to bail out, this was mis-heard and Sgt Steer bailed out. Pilot regained control of the Lancaster and returned to base only to discover his W/O missing. Sgt Steer subsequently wrote from Stalag VIIIB to his pilot regarding the rather unfortunate happening as seen by the attached copy.

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