1939 Unaccounted Airmen Database Reconciliation

Aircraftman 1st Class W S MARTIN (540304) Wireless Operator Blenheim I L8598 AIR81/1760 1939-12-27 18 Sqdn France Le Quesnel Communal Cemetery E


Full Name : Air78 William Martin 540304

Paul

Aircraftman 1st Class W S MARTIN (540304) - the Western Daily Press of January 3rd 1940 reported his death, and gives his full name as William Stuart Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Martin, 119 Bishop Road, Horfield, Bristol.

Regards

Simon

FullName Update 1939


Air Apprentice
BANKS, D L
Service Number 4767
Died 07/10/1939
South African Air Force
Son of Mr and Mrs J Banks, of Bloemfontein.

Fullname: David Lawrence Banks


BIRTH
2 Feb 1918
DEATH
7 Oct 1939 (aged 21)
BURIAL
Bloemfontein (In Memoriam) Cemetery
Bloemfontein, Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality, Free State, South Africa
PLOT
Plot L. Grave 443.
MEMORIAL ID
179505987 · View Source

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...lawrence-banks

Hello,

30 December 1939.

935091 (not, 935031) AC2 David BRIGHT RAFVR + 30 December 1939 - 2 Electrical and Wireless School, Yatesbury, Wilts., Training Command.
Died of Natural Causes, Newcastle-upon-Tyne General Hospital.

See:
Failed To Return - Airmen Died in the Second World War 1939-1945 - The Roll of Honour of the British, Commonwealth and Allied Air Services - Part 2: A-B.
Hobson,Chris (Comp.).
Uckfield:Naval & Miltary Press,2018.
p.926.

Col.

Re thread 120
France B and Walker P appear on the same page of Gainsboro' death register. No trace of a Francis.

DaveW

Philip Herbert WARREN (561954)

1940 UK Probate says he died on War Service

He was 28 and death registered in Devices and that makes his birth registered 1911 St. George Hanover Square, London, England

Philip Herbert WARREN (561954) His Service File provides no clue on his death but states he was an aircraft apprentice (Fitter) when he enlisted in 1927 (aged 16 Boy) but for 20 years

Bertram Percival COLLINS (702536)

Born 15 Sep 1918 Prittlewell Essex, died 1939 Rochford, Essex, England

Norman Hansford Gregory (Pat) YATES (517955)

Born 1910 Shirley, Southampton, Hampshire, England
Died 1939 Aldershot

One less

Surrey Advertiser - Saturday 30 September 1939

Collision in the Early Hours

RAF man recieved fatal injuries and two others seriously hurt when the
car in which they were driving was in collison with a lorry at Bagshot on Thursday
of last week.

Dead man was Cpl. Yates and the others were Flight-Sergt Bateman and Flight-Sergeant Kurht (sic)
The driver of the lorry Albert Curtis of Covelly escaped without injury.
Accident occured after 2 o'clock Thursday morning at the junction of London Road
and Guildford Road.

Yates died shortly after admission to hospital

Kurht is LAURENCE JAMES KUHRT Service Number 580042. Died 17/12/1941.