DIED AT POST
NEW ZEALAND WIRELESS OPERATOR
(P.A.) WELLINGTON. June 10. The wireless operator who stayed« his post to the last when an Australian coastal freighter was torpedoed ana sunk last week was a New Zealander, Sidney Francis Stafford. . Private cablegrams from Australia 'confirm the fact that, by his devotion to duty, he lost his own life. He wai born at Wanganui in 1891 and educated at the Marist School there, later joining the Post and Telegraph Department. He went to the wireless school in Sydney, and later was wireless operator, in vessels round the New Zealand and Australian coasts before buying a store-in Sydney. returnee to service early in the war. His only brother is Mr E. W. Stafford, of Hos* and Glendining. Ltd.. Wellington.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23661, 11 June 1942, Page 4
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