Service Details
Name:
 POWELL-JONES
Given Name:
 RICHARD LAURENCE STANLEY
Initials:
 R L S
Service No:
 P1/7285
Trade:
 Instructor
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Date of Death:
 1938-04-18
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Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Tiger Moth #ZS-AIP. The engine stalled while the plane was in an inverted position during low level aerobatics. The plane crashed one mile SE of the Randfontein Airfield while attempting to recover.
Additional
Information:
Son of Capt. Stanley W. and Viola Powell-Jones, of Rustenburg. Instructor Pilot for Witwatersrand Technical School of Aeronautics. ref. 85 years of SAAF
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Gauteng
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Cemetery:
 JOHANNESBURG AREA CEMETERY ?
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Grave Reference:
 Cremated

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