Photo: Dorothy Hall
Memorial at Tattershall: Tony Hibberd
Memorial at Tattershall: Tony Hibberd
Memorial at Tattershall: Tony Hibberd
1035770 Sergeant
W. Standring
Air Bomber
Royal Air Force
30th March 1943
Sgt. Standring was serving with 97 Sqdn. He was a crew member of Lancaster I W4175 OF-U which took off from Woodhall Spa on a mission to Berlin. It crashed 7 hours later in Coningsby killing all the crew. This was an evening when 39 aircraft crashed, with an average of 6 persons on each.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War: 1943; W.R. Chorley; 1996; Midland Counties Publications: ISBN 0 904597 90 3
Tony Hibberd has supplied these photos of a memorial at the crash site in Tattershall, Lincolnshire.
William Standring is not remembered on a North East War Memorial.
