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Unaccounted airmen 06/06/40 - Recovered Post
Unaccounted airmen 06/06/40 - Recovered PostAuthor: 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