Identity
Person No.
32556
Service No.
P1/7285
Last Name
First Name
Richard Laurence Stanley
Initials
R L S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
AA 1,737
Aircraft accident
Cause of Death
Died in Aircraft Accident, crash in 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
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Regiment
Unknown
Unit
Unknown
Secondary Unit
"D" Squadron
Defence Force
UDF 24,808
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Notes
Son of Capt. Stanley W. and Viola Powell-Jones, of Rustenburg. Instructor Pilot for Witwatersrand Technical School of Aeronautics. ref. 85 years of SAAF
Research notes
Unit was contaminated with an unrelated Army/Navy unit -- same "85 years of SAAF" batch-import bug as the 32 infantry/artillery/commando cases fixed 28 Aug 2026. Cleared rather than guessed at a correct Unit.
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