STANFORD, Ernest Frederick
| Service Number: | 27978 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 November 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Aircraftman |
| Last Unit: | No. 1 Squadron (RAAF) |
| Born: | Semaphore, South Australia, 20 March 1922 |
| Home Town: | Cobdogla, Berri and Barmera, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Died at sea (Tamahoko Maru) - Prisoner of War, East China Sea, off the coast of Japan, East China Sea, Pacific Ocean, 24 June 1944, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Singapore Memorial, Singapore |
| Memorials: | Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Barmera Memorial Gates, Cobdogla Sporting Complex Memorial Gates, Singapore Memorial Kranji War Cemetery |
World War 2 Service
| 5 Nov 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 27978, RAAF Ground Training Schools, Adelaide | |
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| 5 Nov 1940: | Enlisted 27978 | |
| 7 Dec 1941: | Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, 27978, No. 1 Squadron (RAAF), Australia's Northern Periphery | |
| 24 Jun 1944: | Imprisoned Prisoners of War, Died in captivity - Sumatra |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Barlow
The Japanese Transport Ship Tamahoko Maru was torpedoed and sunk by a US Navy Submarine off Nagasaki en-route from Sumatra with a cargo of Prisoners of War - many of whom drowned before any possibility of rescue and these men are commemorated on the Singapore Memorial
Of the 17 RAAF Personnel known to be on board, 14 died & 3 survived the sinking and the war - Warrant Officer Barnes 405034 / Corporal Downie 34225 / Johnson 2301 (enlisted 1936, discharged 1965 #A3872) - those killed were:
GIBBINS, Bruce Addison (Corporal) 3353
McKEAN, George Norman (Corporal) 5651
JOEL, Robert Edmondson (Leading Aircraftman) 8814
PITTENDRIGH, James Leslie (Leading Aircraftman) 15398
BROWN, Ronald Edward (Leading Aircraftman) 17047
LANDSBERG, James William (Sergeant) 404759
TOOHEY, Brian Aloysius (Warrant Officer) 402758 (100SQN)
LEWIS, Harold Victor (Sergeant) 406146 (211SQN RAF)
GREEN, John Joseph (Warrant Officer) 400951 (36SQN)
POTTS, Charles Dudley (Aircraftman 1) 39872 (8SQN)
HOOPER, Dudley Reed (Warrant Officer) 404280 84SQN
BUCHHORN, Maxwell Henry (Aircraftman) 8594
STANFORD, Ernest Frederick (Leading Aircraftman) 27978
BINNIE, Neil Arlie (Leading Aircraftman) 33659