SCHOLZ, Stanley Rechner
Service Number: | 416617 |
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Enlisted: | 21 July 1941 |
Last Rank: | Sergeant |
Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
Born: | Angaston, SA, 6 September 1917 |
Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
Schooling: | Nuriootpa High School |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Accidental, Port Pirie, Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia, 22 November 1942, aged 25 years |
Cemetery: |
Port Pirie General Cemetery, South Australia Plot C. Row D. Grave 16., Port Pirie General Cemetery, Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia |
Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, District of Nuriootpa Roll of Honour WW2, Nuriootpa High School WW2 Memorial, Port Pirie RAAF L5760 Crash Site, Port Pirie RAAF Memorial and Flagpoles |
World War 2 Service
21 Jul 1941: | Involvement Sergeant, 416617 | |
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21 Jul 1941: | Enlisted Adelaide | |
21 Jul 1941: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 416617 | |
Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Charles William Albert and Elsie Scholz, of Nuriootpa.
Two air-men were killed when an aircraft from a RAAP station in South Australia crashed this week while on a training flight. They were: — Sgt. Stanley Rechner Scholz. 25, single, of Nuriootpa,
SA, and ACl Douglas Thompson. 23, single, of Kalgoorlie, WA. At the time of the crash the aircraft was towing a target.
Sgt. Plt. Stanley Rechner Scholz, RAAF, who was killed in an air crash recently, was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Scholz, of Light Pass. Before enlistment he had been studying chemistry.