In Memory Of

STANFORD, NICHOLAS JAMES

Service Details
Age:
 28
Date of Birth:
 1915-01-02
Service No:
 80378
Rank:
 Flying Officer
Unit:
 101 Sqdn.
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
 1943-05-05
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.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Plot D. Row 1. Grave 4.
Cemetery:
 WORKUM (SPOORDYK) GENERAL CEMETERY
Country:
 Netherlands
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