Name
Frederick John Ewart Stafford
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/04/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Flying Corps
8th Squadron
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
II. F. 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
A little white knight of merry England
UK & Other Memorials
Caldicott School Memorial, Hitchin*1
Pre War
He was born on the 28th December 1897 and his home was The Green, Haywards Heath. He was the eldest son of Mr and Mrs E.D. Stafford of Brighton and Haywards Heath and was the grandson of Alderman Stafford, formerly Mayor of Brighton,
Frederick entered the School in September 1910 and left in July 1912 to go to Mill Hill.
Wartime Service
After being commissioned he was attached to 8 Squadron which, at the time of his death, was flying the BE 2D and was based at Soncamp between Arras and Doullens. The aircraft was almost certainly being used either for artillery or general observation over the Arras sector as there was much fighting in the area at the time.
He is buried at the Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension in France.
Additional Information
He may appear at B J Stafford on the school memorial. A private inscription commissioned by his father, then of Vila Adastra, Hassocks, Sussex, read “A little white knight of merry England”. *1 This memorial (names only) was removed to Caldicott School, Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, when the school moved to that site.
Acknowledgments
Terry Ransome, www.caldicott.com/HistoryWW2.aspx, Jonty Wild
