Killed in action, 8 crew (4 RAFVR), shot down by Luftwaffe night fighter while en route to drop supplies to Polish Home Army Partisans in Warsaw, Poland, in Liberator B24J Mk VI #EW250
Son of William Longden Stuart Franklin and Winifred (nee Searle). On Mossel Bay War Memorial, Western Cape. Remembered in Searle Memorial Church in Great Brak