The second clipping is from the Belfast Newsletter at the time. He was due to be released from the RAF within two weeks when he was involved in a fatal motorcycle accident.
He is buried with his parents in West Derby Cemetery. Joan Roberts was his fiancée.
I recently made contact with his younger sister Pamela, who said that Stanley wanted to train as a pilot in the RAF but a heart murmur put pay to that. He was a talented classical pianist who also wrote music, and entertained the troops playing concerts.
Stanley's mother, Gertrude Elsie Hindley, was sister to my great grandmother Ellen Eliza Hindley.
The notice reads:
" BECALICK - October 26 in Northern Ireland aged 23 years. Stanley beloved fiancé of Joan (Smiles, tears, of all my life, and, if God chooses, I shall but love thee better after death.) "
RAF Killadeas on the banks of Lough Erne, seven miles from Enniskillen was home to the Catalina flying boats.
