440101 - Unaccounted Airmen - 1-1-1944

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

The start of another year of war losses.

440101 - Unaccounted Airmen - 1-1-1944

From Henk's list -
ITALY
YOUNG-HART, Leslie George - F/S - 1390670 - RAFVR - Bari, Italy.

TUNISIA
McFARLANE, Robert - LAC - 1001904 - RAFVR - Massicault, Tunisia.

UK
DOUGLAS, David - AC1 - 1374193 - RAFVR - Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire.
SCOTT, Edward - Sgt (WoP/A/G) - 1134688 - RAFVR - Medomsley (St. Mary Magdallane), Durham.
SIMPSON, William G V - Cpl - 799744 - RAFVR - Torquay, Devon.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

UK
GREVILLE, Donald Glyndwr - F/O - 143449 - RAFVR - Drefach ( Capel Seion), Carmarthenshire.
WALMSLEY, Kenneth Eastwood - Sgt (A/G) - 1750354 - RAFVR - Manchester, Lancashire.

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

UK(2) - WALMSELEY

1-2 January 1944
No.28 OTU
Wellington IC R1086
Op: Nickel.

AUS425501 F/Sgt (Pilot) Thomas George FULLER RAAF - Injured (later Croix de Guerre [France]).
AUS426194 Sgt (Nav.) Keith Hessel WHITE RAAF
AUS419194 Sgt (Bomb Aimer) Keith Cedric MANDER RAAF - Injured
158942 Sgt (W.Op./Air Gnr.) T A CAFFYN RAFVR
Sgt L ANDERSON - Seriously Injured
1750354 Sgt (Air Gnr.) Kenneth Eastwood WALMSELEY RAFVR +

See: BCL7/270.

Col.

[wwrsimon]

SCOTT 1134688 - registered Truro I believe.

Regards

Simon

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

ITALY
YOUNG-HART, Leslie George - F/S - serving with HQ TAF.

TUNISIA
McFARLANE, Robert - LAC - serving with 167 MU.

UK
DOUGLAS, David - AC1 - not Eng/Wales.
SCOTT, Edward - Sgt (WoP/A/G) - registered in Truro.
SIMPSON, William G V - Cpl - refistered in Newton Abbott.
GREVILLE, Donald Glyndwr - F/O - registered in Stroud.

Malcolm

[Martyn A Critchlow]

McFARLANE, Robert - LAC - 1001904 - died as a result of an accident in North Africa
(Dundee Evening Telegraph, 5 January 1944)

Martyn

[dennis_burke]

Young Hart is listed as DOAS on the 9th March 1944 casualty lists in FLight magazine. Cas Comm 353

CWGC have him as Younge-Hart.

R McFarlane, is on Casualty Communique. 355 in the same magazine, DOAS also as one would expect.

W G V Simpson is also listed DOAS


Note that Edward Scott's Grave Registration report lists his unit as 307 Ferry Training Unit.
The 16th March 1944 Flight magazine and Aeroplane casualty lists confirm E Scott as having died of injuries received on active service.,

There is a Scottish death registration the matches the age:
DOUGLAS, DAVID Age:36 year: 1944 Ref:643/ 1 Registration District : East Kilbride

I rememebred I transcribed all the 1944 DOAS entries and they are here: No sign of D Douglas: http://ww2irishaviation.com/DOASandWAAF1944.htm

Greville is listed as being with 63 OTU on his grave registration sheet on CWGC. And listed as Killed on Active Service
http://aircrewremembered.com/grevill...d-glyndwr.html Beaufighter R2304

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

I wonder if Scott may have died from injuries, sustained on 29 Dec 1943 whilst flying in Boston III, W8370 of No 1 OADU, which flew into the ground near St Agnes shortly after taking off from Portreath.

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

Hello

DOUGLAS, David - AC1 - 1374193 - the Statutory Deaths Register on the Scotland's People website records that David Douglas, Motor Driver (Aircraftman, R.A.F.) died at 11.40 a.m. at Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride due to Pulmonary TB, for which he had undergone two operations in October and December 1943.

Regards

Simon

[dennis_burke]

Harold Sunderland is listed as 307 FTU on CWGC registration sheet, Lupton is on a cremation memorial so there is no such page scanned! So, i think that's a fair assumption to make for Scott.

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to John Scott Williams C 2729. He died of cancer