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Date:March - September 1940 (c.)
Description:Stan joined the R.A.F Volunteer Reserve in July 1939 shortly before the outbreak of WW2. He had grown up in Stafford, part of a large family with 4 brothers and three sisters, attending St Leonard's Avenue school and then working as a ledger clerk at BRC at Queensville.
In the R.A.F. he was trained as a wireless operator / air gunner and after 12 months intensive training was posted to 99 squadron based at Newmarket. On 29th April 1941 Stan and the rest of the crew of Wellington T.2721 failed to return from a mission over Mannheim in south western Germany. The average age of the six crew members was 24 with Stan being the youngest having celebrated his 20th birthday 3 months earlier.
This photograph was taken in the back garden of 69 Oxford Gardens.