SECOND AIRMAN MISSING
Further Incident In Canal Zone
Rec. 12.10 a.m.) LONDON, July 20. The news that a second British air-
man is missing in Egypt was made known today with the publication of an Air Ministry letter to the man’s parents. The man is a Londoner, Leading Aircraftman Derek Stainton, aged 20. He vanished, with a Royal Air Force passenger coach, on the way from his base at Abu Sueir to Ismailia, eight miles
away, in the Canal Zone. The Ministry told his parents that his disappearance was being taken up “at the highest military and diplomatic levels.”
The disappearance of Airman A. V. Rigden in the same area earlier this month caused the British forces to impose restrictions. The commander of the Abu Sueir Royaj Air Force camp, Group Captain W. Hanaford, has also written to Air-
craftman Stainton’s parents. “So far as I am aware, this is the first case of a Royal Air Force vehicle being stolen where the driver has apparently been abducted,” Group Captain Hanaford told them. “This does not mean he is presumed dead,” an Air Ministry spokesman commented.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27097, 21 July 1953, Page 9
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