PAYNE, Stanley Wilfred
| Service Number: | 406537 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 January 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Flight Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Greenbushes, Western Australia, 15 January 1920 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | School teacher |
| Died: | Western Australia, 18 October 1984, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Vc Section-Wall 1-0002 |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 6 Jan 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 406537 | |
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| 22 Jan 1946: | Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant, 406537 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Johnson
Stan Payne taught at Wembley Primary School in Simper Street in the 1950’s. His wartime friend Stan Thomson lived in Simper Street in the 1950’s so his son and daughter went to Wembley Primary School. His son was in Stan Payne's class. One day Stan Payne said to the daughter, “You have a lot to be proud of in your father.”
The two Stans were in the RAAF attached to RAF squadrons. Stan Payne was shot down over Germany. Stan Thomson crash-landed in the desert and went back into the burning Wellington to get the emergency water supply. Both Stans ended up in Stalag Luft 3 of “The Great Escape” fame.
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