Service Details
Name:
 STANFORD
Given Name:
 NICHOLAS JAMES
Initials:
 N J
Service No:
 80378
Rank:
 Flying Officer
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Unit:
 101 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1943-05-05
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Date of Birth:
 1915-01-02
Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Lancaster W4888 (SR-P), while returning to England from "Operation Sprat", the first major attack on Dortmund as part of the Ruhr Offensive, his aircraft was hit over the Ijsselmeer on the Frisian Coast, and crash-landed near Workum Railway Station, killing him instantly.
Additional
Information:
Son of Harold Shippey and Annie Gertrude (nee Adkins) Stanford, of Greytown. Born Greytown, Natal. Educated Hilton College, Natal. Enlisted Salisbury, Rhodesia 1941; posted to 101 Squadron at RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor, Yorkshire March 1943, flying Lancasters. Commemorated on Greytown, KZN & Hilton College, KZN Midlands WWII Memorials & on the Lancaster W4888 Memorial, Workum, Netherlands
Commemoration
Country:
 Netherlands
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Cemetery:
 WORKUM (SPOORDYK) GENERAL CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Plot D. Row 1. Grave 4.

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