Stanley Digby Murray
Memorial: Cromhall - St Andrews Church
Regiment: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Medals: 1939–45 Star, War Medal 1939–1945
Rank and number: Flight Lieutenant (Navigator)
Parents: Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Digby Murray & Rosamund Murray
Home address: Whitfield House, Whitfield, Glos.
Date of birth: 08/11/1920
Date of death: 17/04/1943
Buried/Commemorated at: Buried in Maynamati War Cemetery Bangladesh and commemorated on Falfield War Memorial, St Georges Church and on Cromhall St Andrews Churchyard Memorial
Age: 22
Further information:
Stanley was the youngest of 3 brothers and his father was a career soldier who had been decorated during the 1st World War and served in the Army during the 2nd.
Stanley’s squadron (the 62 squadron) was a General Reconnaissance Unit, flying coastal reconnaissance and anti-submarine patrols in Lockheed Hudson aircraft off the coast of Burma. At the beginning of 1943 Stanley was stationed at Jessore airfield in India and his squadron’s remit changed from reconnaissance to bombing missions of Japanese shipping. It was during one such raid that Stanley was killed.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/
http://www.thepeerage.com/p51881.htm#i518803
http://www.falfield.org.uk/stanley_digby_murray.html
https://wikivisually.com/wiki/No._62_Squadron_RAF
http://www.historyofwar.org/air/units/RAF/62_wwII.html
https://wikivisually.com/wiki/No._62_Squadron_RAF