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N.Z. RADIO OPERATOR SHIP SUNK NEAR SYDNEY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. The wireless operator who stayed at his post to the last when the Australian coastal freighter was torpedoed and sunk last week was a New Zealander, Mr. Sidney Francis Stafford. Private cables from Australia confirm the fact that by his devotion to duty he lost his life. He was born in Wanganui in 1891 and educated at the Marist School there. He joined the P. and T. Department, going to a wireless school In Sydney. Later he was wireless operator on vessels round the New Zealand and Australian coasts prior to buying a store in Sydney. He returned to sea for war service. His only brother is Mr. E. W. Stafford, of Ross and Glendining, Ltd., Wellington.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1942, Page 6
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