Ross Milton Stanford DFC, OAM (25 September 1917 – 11 July 2006) was a South Australian first class cricketer who served in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as a pilot during the Second World War, flying Avro Lancaster heavy bombers over Europe.

He also represented the Australian Services XI at cricket, playing games in England, India, Ceylon and Australia before being demobilised in 1946.

In civilian life, Stanford ran his own market garden business, worked for the State Bank of South Australia and had an unsuccessful political career.

He went on to make his first-class cricket debut as an 18-year-old, playing for South Australia against Tasmania in the Sheffield Shield at the Adelaide Oval in February/March 1936.

As a result, Stanford would not play first-class cricket again before the outbreak of the Second World War.

[1] At the age of 23, Stanford enlisted into the Royal Australian Air Force on 21 July 1941, volunteering for active service during the war.

617 Squadron,[1] including a decoy operation around Cap d'Antifer during the invasion of Normandy,[7] and an attack on the railway tunnel at Saumur with 12,000-pound Tallboy bombs in the days following the landing.

[1] While in England, Stanford returned to first-class cricket, playing a match for an RAAF team against an English side at the County Ground, Hove, in July 1943.