Wilfred Henry COLLINS

[graeme clarke]

Hi

Researching

Aircraftman 2nd Class 959075 Wilfred Henry COLLINS
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Died in South Africa on 27 February 1941

He is buried in Capetown (Plumstead) Cemetery in Grave Grave UL. 86.

Can anyone tell me what happened to him.

Many thanks

Graeme

[dennis_burke]

The RAF casualty list printed in Flight amgazine APRIL 3RD, 1941

lists him as Died on Active Service.

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1941/1941%20-%200804.html?search=959075
This usually indicates a death from illness, car accident not related to him being on duty, deaths from natural causes but we have also seen it to relate to men killed when hit by propellers and the like. But I would be confident it was not an aircraft crash or similar.

[graeme clarke]

Hi Dennis

Many thanks for your time and trouble.

He is not, to the best of my knowledge, on any RoH and I stumbled across him while researching the Walsall RoH.

Regards,

Graeme

[graeme clarke]

From Findagrave

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/159606264

He died in Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town of pneumonia and abscesses of the lungs after two months illness.

Regards,

Graeme

[dennis_burke]

From 61 Air School ORB
959075 AC1 Collins W H died of double pneumonia in Wynberg Military Hospital