Stanley Frederick Harding Kelley

Pilot Officer Stanley Kelley was the son of Adolphus Moore Kelley and Marjorie Allison MacLean Kelley of 31 Dominion Street in Moncton. He died June 8, 1944, when his Halifax bomber went missing on a night operation to bomb Juvisy, France.

While he was first considered missing by the Canadian war office, the location of the aircraft was known to the French citizens on the ground. His body was recovered and buried in the Villeneuve-St. Georges, about 18 kilometres southeast of Paris.

Kelley, a bomb aimer, was 23 when he died, a member of No. 78 Squadron RAF. Stanley Kelley attended Moncton High School and before enlisting in the RCAF on April 13, 1942, he worked in the CNR Cartage Department in Moncton. He completed his training in London, Ontario at No. 4 Air Observer School, receiving his bomber’s wings in June of 1943. The next month he went overseas and was on active service up until his death. His brother Russell was also a pilot officer in the RCAF, serving in Maitland, Nova Scotia at the time of Stanley’s death.