431217 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 17-12-1943

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

431217 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 17-12-1943

From Henk's list -

WAAF
UK
CHANDLER, Evelyn Joyce - LACW - 2007531 - WAAF - Cherry Hinton (St. Andrew) , Cambridgeshire.

ITALY
THORNTON, Francis Joseph Gerard - F/L - 89279 - RAFVR - Bari, Italy.

TUNISIA
HORTON, Gordon Worrall - AC2c - 1542200 - RAFVR - Medjez-El-Bab, Tunisia.

UK
COOPER, Joshua - F/S - 511270 - RAF - Liverpool (Anfield), Lancashire.
JONES,Alfred Thomas - Cpl - 930871 - RAFVR - Gravesend, Kent
JONES, Godfrey Nimrod - Sgt(Pilot) - 1316462 - RAFVR - Merthyr Tydfil (Cefn), Brecknockshire.
SMITH, Frederick Charles - F/L - 62395 -RAFVR - Wellington, Somerset.
STEPHENSON, Henry James - F/L - 134463 -RAFVR - Mark Beech (Holy Trinity), Kent.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

INDIA
BURGESS, Reginald Royle - F/S (WoP/A/G) - 1380583 - RAFVR - Kirkee, India.

UK
BURGE, Mark John Ford - F/O (Flg Instr) - 150186 - RAFVR - Brent Knoll (St. Michael), Somerset.
MORRIS, Peter Yorke - F/S (Pilot) - 1322304 - RAFVR - Brookwood, Surrey.

USA
LOVETT, Anthony Simpson - LAC - 1806953 - RAFVR - Mesa City, Arizona, USA.

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

UK (l) - JONES, Godfrey Nimrod 1316462

UK (2) - BURGE, Mark John Ford 150186

No.3(P)AFU - Oxford I LB459.

Flew into ground at Sandy Hill Farm, Glos., in bad weather. DBF.

Col.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

ITALY
THORNTON, Francis Joseph Gerard - F/L - serving with 214 Group.

TUNISIA
HORTON, Gordon Worrall - AC2 - serving with HQ NWAAF.

INDIA
BURGESS, Reginald Royle - F/S (WoP/A/G) - killed whilst flying in Vengence, ? of No 320 MU, which crashed at Badnagar, Pierson RCAF also killed.

UK
CHANDLER, Evelyn Joyce - LACW - registered in Cambridge.
MORRIS, Peter Yorke - F/S (Pilot) - possibly killed whilst flying in Spitfire, AD315 of No 287 Sqn, which flew into the ground in fog near Green Hales in Buckinghamshire during an anti-aircraft co-operation sortie.
COOPER, Joshua - F/S - registered in Liverpool South.
JONES, Alfred Thomas - Cpl - registered in Maistone
SMITH, Frederick Charles - F/L - registered in Taunton.
STEPHENSON, Henry James - F/L - 134463 - registered in Tonbridge.

USA
LOVETT, Anthony Simpson - LAC - 3 BFTS.

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

INDIA.

BURGESS/PIERSON RCAF .

No.1 AGS (India) Vultee Vengeance II AN613 - Dived into ground near Badnawar. Cause not known.

A-B AA100 - AZ999. p.107.

Col.

[Jagan]

Vengeance AN613 and Vengeance AN759 both were new allotments that crashed enroute to Bhopal where 1 AGS was. That probably accounts for Malcolms post that they were from 320MU (Karachi). and crashed after being dispatched to 1 AGS at Bhopal/Bairagarh. AN613 was apparently the more serious crash. A Vultee representative arriving in Bhopal a couple of days after the crash to visit the crash site personally (presumaby for the CoI)

Source: No.1 AGS ORB

[wwrsimon]

Hello

UK
STEPHENSON, Henry James - F/L - 134463 - the Sevenoaks Chronicle of Decemebr 24th 1943 reported that he died after a short illness.

USA
LOVETT, Anthony Simpson - LAC - 1806953 - his entry on findagrave.com records that he died "in an airplane crash into Roosevelt Lake (north of Mesa) during training."

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to Maurice Edgar Webb R 182097, he died of carcinoma of the neck in the Westminster hospital, London, Ontario

[jonheyworth]

Evelyn Joyce Chandler 2007531 , a medically discharged Airwoman , died in the Papworth Village Settlement of pulmonary tuberculosis

[jonheyworth]

Gordon Worrall Horton 1542200 , a cook and butcher attached to Number 1 RAF Hospital, died in a road accident near Carthage

[Invicta]

Corporal 930871 Alfred Thomas Jones - Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

No.125 Airfield

Born 10 March 1920 in Gravesend the eldest of three sons to Alfred Thomas Jones and Dorothy (nee Bainbridge) his two younger brothers were John William Jones born 1921 and Kenneth Warrington Jones born 1928

He was educated at Gordon School, Gravesend

Alfred married Dorothy Bainbridge in 1940 and they had a son Peter M Jones born in 1943, they lived at 69 New Road, Gravesend

Before the war he was employed by B. Marshall photographers

He joined the RAFVR in 1940 and served in a number of RAF bases around the UK - it was whilst stationed with No.125 Airfield that he was involved in a road traffic accident. On Friday 17 December 1943 Alfred was knocked down and killed on the Maidstone Road at Stockbury by a RAF lorry driven by LAC Henry Baron Dixon

On Wednesday 22 December a service was held at St George’s church, Gravesend and afterwards Alfred was given a military funeral and buried at Gravesend Cemetery in plot B16-1805