{"id":5662,"date":"2020-09-10T08:40:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T08:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=5662"},"modified":"2021-02-01T11:07:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T11:07:54","slug":"shafsby-denis-sidney","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/shafsby-denis-sidney\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafsby, Denis Sidney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Denis Sidney Shafsby<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Leading Aircraftman, 41 Air School, East London, South Africa<br>Service number 1672432<br>Died 28 Jul 1943<br>Buried East London (East Bank) Cemetery, South Africa<br>Age 19<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Headstone Inscription<br>&#8216;DEARLY LOVED ONLY SON OF ABRAHAM AND RACHEL SHAFSBY, SOUTHPORT, ENGLAND&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Denis was born in 1924 in Prestwich, Lancashire to Abraham and Rachel nee Burman and had an older sister Constance. He attended Manchester University before he enlisted at Padgate when he was eighteen in 1942. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Denis was the pilot of Anson SAAF 3180 which crashed whilst attempting a forced landing on a beach at Mazeppa Bay in the Eastern Cape following an engine failure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shafsby_DS-700x980.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shafsby_DS-700x980.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shafsby_DS-250x350.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shafsby_DS-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shafsby_DS-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shafsby_DS-1463x2048.jpg 1463w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shafsby_DS-120x168.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shafsby_DS-scaled.jpg 1829w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Photo provided by The War Graves Photographic Project \u00a92021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shafsby-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shafsby-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shafsby-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shafsby-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shafsby-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shafsby-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Shafsby.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>East London (East Bank) Cemetery, South Africa. <br>Photo provided by The War Graves Photographic Project \u00a92021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denis Sidney Shafsby Leading Aircraftman, 41 Air School, East London, South AfricaService number 1672432Died 28 Jul 1943Buried East London (East Bank) Cemetery, South AfricaAge 19 Headstone Inscription&#8216;DEARLY LOVED ONLY SON OF ABRAHAM AND RACHEL SHAFSBY, SOUTHPORT, ENGLAND&#8217; Denis was born in 1924 in Prestwich, Lancashire to Abraham and Rachel nee Burman and had an older&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/shafsby-denis-sidney\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11856,"parent":22,"menu_order":562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shafsby, Denis Sidney | Remembering the Jews of WW2<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/shafsby-denis-sidney\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shafsby, Denis Sidney | Remembering the Jews of WW2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Denis Sidney Shafsby Leading Aircraftman, 41 Air School, East London, South AfricaService number 1672432Died 28 Jul 1943Buried East London (East Bank) Cemetery, South AfricaAge 19 Headstone Inscription&#8216;DEARLY LOVED ONLY SON OF ABRAHAM AND RACHEL SHAFSBY, SOUTHPORT, ENGLAND&#8217; Denis was born in 1924 in Prestwich, Lancashire to Abraham and Rachel nee Burman and had an older... 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