Death of Squadron-
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Leader Stan Baldie
SQUADRON-LEADER Stanley Baldie, of the RAF, nephew of Mrs. Flo.
Stewart, of Wau, New Guinea, has been killed in India.
In 1936, the two cousins (Mrs. Stewart’s son, Moresby Gofton, and Mrs. Baldie’s son, Stanley) went off to England together, and together they joined the RAF. When war came,, they were trained
and ready. They were among the young men who saved Britain from Hitler’s Huns in 1940 —those of whom Churchill said: “Never did so many owe so much to so few.”
Flying-Officer Gofton flew a bomber.
He was lost in air operations in May, 1940. Young Baldie became a fighter pilot—he was a member of the very famous No. 1 Squadron which was based in France early in the war. He survived numerous fights and innumerable perils, was promoted Squadron-Leader, and sent to India. Now he, too, is gone.
Stanley Baldie, in England, married a Scottish girl, and leaves an' infant daughter. His mother was in Germany when the war came; and recently she was reported in Stuttgart, and well. His brother, Dudley, at present is training in the RAAF.
Squadron-Leader Baldie.