From the Bury Grammar School web site, Roll of Honour:
Flight Sergeant James Phillip Standring, 235 Squadron RAF. James Standring was the navigator/wireless operator of Beaufighter T5252 based at RAF Chivenor in North Devon. On 24th November 1942 they took part in a training exercise involving a German Junkers 88 bomber, which had force-landed at an RAF airfield in the Midlands some time previously and was now touring RAF bases to give pilots practice of attacking this type of aircraft. During the exercise the pilot, P/O Ronald Payne failed to pull out of a dive and crashed on the shore of the River Taw at Instow just across the bay from Chivenor. James Standring was 24. Manchester Crematorium Panel 21. A few months later another BGS old boy, Edgar Widdows was also killed in an accident at RAF Chivenor.
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