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Message:: [QUOTE="David Askett, post: 239967, member: 4727"]Hi Ladybranch, Thanks for your thoughts. Like you, when I found out about this C. A. C. Stone I was excited because I thought for sure he must be our guy. The name, the fact that he ended the war a Wing Commander and that he was "overseas" in India and Burma from 1942 to 1944, like the inscription says, all seemed like huge coincidences. He wasn't Canadian, and was RAF, not RCAF, but there were many Canadians in the squadron he lead in Burma, 135 Sqn. RAF, and so I figured maybe they'd presented him with the mug. Anyway, as much as I'd like for him to be our guy, I'm now pretty much convinced that he's not. There was another Wing Commander Stone, without the first C in his initials, from Canada, who lived in Calgary and was sent overseas to England in 1942. And, judging from the dearth of material about him out there, he must have had a far less exciting career than his namesake C. A. C. Stone did![/QUOTE]