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Unaccounted airmen 06/06/40 - Recovered Post

Unaccounted airmen 06/06/40 - Recovered Post
Author: Ross_McNeill
Time Stamp:
10:30:34 Saturday, August 11, 2007
Post:
Henk Welting. (Guest) (12 posts)

07-Nov-07, 02:38 PM (GMT)

"'Unaccounted' airmen - 6-6-1940"

What caused the death of following airmen who died of wounds or injuries received on active service (Flight Global):

AC2 Frederick W. NUTTER - 986799, buried Burnley Cem., Lancashire (UK524), and

AC2 Stanley T. SUMPTER - 903630, buried Burry Cem., Huntingdonshire (UK2360).

Aircraft write-offs for this day:

Hart T - K4991 - 7 FTS - crashed on landing Peterborough, damaged in heavy landing; became a GI airframe.

Hart T - K6459 - 7 FTS - same as K4991.

Hurricane I - P3666 - 6 OTU - bellylanded Sutton Bridge.

Regards and thanks for your help.

Henk.


RE: Unaccounted airmen 06/06/40 - Recovered Post
Author: Jeff (Guest)
Time Stamp:
11:18:58 Thursday, October 11, 2007
Post:
Henk,

From 'Combat Ready' the pilots of the three a/c you have listed were;

K4991 - A/Ldg Airman Ridley RN

K6459 - A/Ldg Airman Turner RN

P3666 - Sgt Simm


RE: Unaccounted airmen 06/06/40 - Recovered Post
Author: Henk Welting (Guest)
Time Stamp:
13:31:04 Thursday, October 11, 2007
Post:
Thanks Jeff. RIDLEY, TURNER and SIMMS were survivors, so my question on NUTTER and SUMPSTER remain still open.

Regards,

Henk.

RE: Unaccounted airmen 06/06/40 - Recovered Post
Author: DaveW
Time Stamp:
13:45:00 Thursday, October 11, 2007
Post:
Henk

Nutter registered at Durham SE and Sumpter at Huntingdon. No suggestions.

Regards

DaveW

RE: Unaccounted airmen 06/06/40 - Recovered Post
Author: Henk Welting (Guest)
Time Stamp:
14:50:00 Thursday, October 11, 2007
Post:
Thanks Dave.

Good weekend,

Henk.

RE: Unaccounted airmen 06/06/40 - Recovered Post
Author: stewartmcloughlin
Time Stamp:
22:01:52 Thursday, October 11, 2007
Post:
[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 10-Nov-07 AT 10:03 PM (GMT)[/font][p]RE:- NUTTER

Info from Lancashire County Council Library Local Studies site at

http://www.lantern.lancashire.gov.uk/search?NS-search-page=

document&NS-rel-doc-name=/local_resources/2706/11159.

html&NS-query=((COLLECTION+%3Ccontains%3E+%22oOo+

Armed+Forces+Index+oOo%22))+%3Cand%3E+((Library+

%3Ccontains%3E+%22oOo+Burnley+oOo%22))%3Cand%3E(+

NUTTER+)&NS-search-type=NS-boolean-query&NS-collection=

local_resources&NS-doc-number=5

that newspaper article

Collection: Armed Forces Collection

Royal Air Force3229

Name : Nutter ,Frederick

Location : BURNLEY

Occupation/

Rank Aircraftman Obit. :

Date: 15 June 1940

Pages: 13

Illus: Y Cuttings: N

Lib.: Burnley

which is a newspaper archive held at Burnley Library, who, if you contact them at

burnley.reference.A T.lcl.lancscc.gov.uk

will more than likely copy and e.mail the entry and likely obituary with photograph to you. Just quote the details.

I have not seen the article, it is not available on-line

Stewart McLoughlin