Ronald Stoten was born about 1922 the son of Walter and Ellen Stoten. On 19 May 1938 he was appointed as a Postman in the London Postal Region. He married Irene Mildred Dickenson (1821-2013) in the 2nd quarter of 1943 in the Brentford Registration District, Middlesex (now Greater London) and they lived at 12 Melbourne Avenue, Ealing, Middlesex (now Greater London).
He joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Service Number 1392630 and was posted to No. 53 Squadron, Coastal Command, when on the night of 7 June 1944, aged 22 years, he was on a Consolidated Liberator Mk V aeroplane, Serial Number BZ778/M, that took off at 23.57 hours from RAF St Eval in Cornwall on an anti U-boat patrol in the west channel area with ten personnel on board. He was a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner. It is believed that it was shot down by a U-boat. Only one body was recovered near Poullan-sur-Mer in the Bay of Douarnenez, Brittany, France. Along with the other nine men who have no known grave he is commemorated on , Cooper's Hill Lane, Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey.
Administration of his estate was granted to his widow on 22 November 1945, who by then had moved to Haywards Heath, Sussex. His effects totalled £207-7s-4d.
He is shown as 'STOTEN R.' on the Western Postal District war memorial at Mount Pleasant, London, WC1. He is also commemorated on the and on .
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
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