431219 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 19-12-1943

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

431219 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 19-12-1943

From Henk's list -

WAAF
HEMINGWAY, Marie - ACW2 - 486532 - WAAF - Dewsbury, Yorkshire.
SLADE, Doris Ivy Britnell - ACW2 - 480570 - WAAF - Radlett (Christ Church), Hertfordshire.

ALGERIA
DINGLEY, Edwin - AC1 - 1536867 - RAFVR - El Alia, Algeria.

UK
FAIRHURST, William Athelstone - W/O - 237847 - RAF - Fareham, Hampshire.

ZIMBABWE
BELL, Norbert R - AC2 (Pilot U/T) - 1685654 -

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

CANADA
MOFFATT, William Michael Florance - F/O - 53837 - RAF - Kingston (Cataraqui), Ontario, Canada.

INDIA
ALDOUS, Harold Norman - F/O - 111711 - RAFVR - Delhi, India.

SIERRA LEONE
LITCHFIELD, Albert - AC1c - 1696778 - RAFVR - Freetown (King Tom), Sierra Leone.

SINGAPORE
LIM KIM ANN - AC2c - 786099 - RAF - Kranji, Singapore.[POW].

Alex

[Bill Walker]

Moffatt was in Harvard AJ687.

...was back at No. 31 SFTS when it crashed at 14:38 on 19 December 1943. Crashed while practicing anti-submarine bombing at Milhaven Practice Bombing Range. Student L/A G.C. Hicks, RN and New Zealand born instructor F/O W.M.F. Moffet, RAF both killed.

Can anyone confirm the spelling of the last name?

[pete102]

ACW2 Hemingway, based at RAF Station Rufforth, knocked down on the street in York the previous night.

Pete

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

ALGERIA
DINGLEY, Edwin - AC1 - No 3 Base Area.

UK
FAIRHURST, William Athelstone - W/O - registered in Weston-super-Mare.
SLADE, Doris Ivy Britnell - ACW2 - registered in St Albans.

ZIMBABWE
BELL, Norbert R - AC2 (Pilot U/T) - CWGC has him on 29 Dec 1943 and he is not shown in the GRO lists
INDIA
ALDOUS, Harold Norman - F/O - 167 Wing
SIERRA LEONE
LITCHFIELD, Albert - AC1 - serving at RAF Waterloo was killed when the lorry he was travelling in overturned near Freetown on a bathing run

SINGAPORE
LIM KIM ANN - AC2 - probably died in captivity.

[John Larder]

Errol Martyn confirms Moffatt - NZ in RAF

[Bill Walker]

Thanks John.

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

Re: SIERRA LEONE - LITCHFIELD, Albert 1696778.

See: http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/sho...Deaths-Look-up

Col.

[dennis_burke]

Hemingway, Slade, Dingley, Fairhurst, Litchfeild, are all listed Died on Active Service
http://www.skynet.ie/~dan/war/flight...nscription.htm

Found Bell as
DIED OF WOUNDS OR INJURIES RECEIVED ON ACTIVE SERVICE.—A/C.2 N. R. Bell. published march 9th Flight magazine.
That would support an aircraft accident.

Aldous does not show up in Flight or Aeroplane, Wills Calender only says death 'On War Service'.

He was a member of the Admin & Spec Duties branch since 1942

[wwrsimon]

Hello

WAAF
SLADE, Doris Ivy Britnell - ACW2 - 480570 - the National Probate Calendar records that she died at Hill End Hospital, St. Albans.

UK
FAIRHURST, William Athelstone - W/O - 237847 - his death certificate is posted on a family tree on ancestry.co.uk, and it records that the died at the Royal Naval Auxiliary Hospital, Barrow Gurney, due to sarcoma of the abdomen. The family tree also records that he was a coxswain on an R.A.F. High Speed Launch.

Regards

Simon