DEVOTION TO DUTY
NEW ZEALAND WIRELESS
OPERATOR
The wireless operator who stayed at his Post to the last when an 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. Mr. Stafford was born in Wanganui in 1891 and was educated at the Marist School there. He joined the Post and Telegraph Department, going to a wireless school in Sydney later. He was wireless operator on vessels on the New Zealand and Australian coasts prior to buying a store in Sydney, and he later returned to the sea for war service. His only brother-is Mr- E. W. Stafford, of Boss and Glendining's, Wellington.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1942, Page 4
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