Stanley Waller
Educated at High Oakham School and was employed at Sherwood Colliery as a clerk.
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Son of Jack and Minnie Waller of 1 Portland Terrace, Mansfield.
Sibling: Betty born 1st August 1926.
Baptised at St Peter's Mansfield on 15th November 1922.
Married Margaret Mary Allcock in Basford in the spring of 1943, so they had been married about a year before Stanley was killed.
IBCC: Avro Lancaster III serial ND923
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Took off from Witchford at 23:03 hrs for a raid over Leuven/Louvain Belguim to bomb the railway yards. 110 aircraft, 4 Lancasters lost. Most of the bombing hit the railway workshops and storage buildings rather than yards.
Shot down by a night-fighter and crashed in the target area.
Mansfield Chronicle Advertiser: 17/8/1944: Mansfield P/O Reported Killed.
We regret to announce that Pilot Officer Stanley Waller aged 21 only son of Mr & Mrs Jack Waller of 1 Portland Terrace, Mansfield who was previously reported missing from air operations on the night of May 11th 1944 is now officially reported to have lost his life on the same night and has been laid to rest by the side of 3 other members of the crew in the cemetery at Wilsele near Louvain, Belguim.
He was educated at High Oakham School and after leaving school was employed as a clerk by Sherwood Colliery Company until he joined the RAF in October 1941.
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