In Memory Of
STAPLES, ALBERT FRANKLIN
Service Details
Age:
21
Date of Birth:
1922-10-11
Service No:
206129V
Rank:
Lieutenant
Unit:
1 Sqdn.
Regiment:
South African Air Force
Date of Death:
1943-12-07
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, hit cement block during forced landing Trigno, in Supermarine Spitfire Mk VIII #JF448
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
X. A. 39.
Cemetery:
SANGRO RIVER WAR CEMETERY
Country:
Italy
Additional Information
Son of Orville Franklin and Grace (nee Mountfort) Staples, of Langholm, Cape Province, South Africa. Commemoration stone in Rokeby Park Seventh Day Adventist cemetery, Bathurst district, Eastern Cape. On Grahamstown Cathedral Parish Church memorial.
