Stanley Charles Skippen

A Flight Sergeant with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Stanley died on 23rd September 1944 at the age of 20.

Stanley was born at Lowestoft on 20 October 1922, a son of William and Nellie Norah Skippen. In 1939 his family lived at 2 Osborne Street. By 1946 Samuel’s parents were living at Tile House, Mancetter Road, Atherstone, Warwickshire. 

Stanley enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve after June 1941. By September 1944 Stanley was a Pilot with 252 Squadron based at Gambut, Libya.

On 23 September Stanley was flying a Beaufighter TFX, number LZ456, in an attack on the freighter S.S. Orion at Denusa, near the island of Naxos, in the Aegean Sea. Stanley’s aircraft was shot down by flak. 

WITH THANKS TO: Malcolm Barrass