440404 - Unaccounted Airmen - 4-4-1944

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

440404 - Unaccounted Airmen - 4-4-1944

From Henk's list -

ALGERIA
BENNETT, Edwin Frank - LAC - 544220 - RAF - Dely Ibrahin, Algeria.

LIBYA
ESSEX, Dennis Aubrey - Sgt - 624510 - RAF - Tripoli, Libya.

UK
DACRE, James Harold - Sgt - 1592260 - RAFVR - Leeds (Harehills), Yorkshire.
HOWARTH, Edwin - AC1c - 1493638 - RAFVR - Colne, Lancashire.
KELLY, Robert - F/S - 335218 - RAF - Ipswich Old, Suffolk.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

CANADA
PACEY, George Robert - LAC - 1174343 - RAFVR - Middleton Holy trinity Old, Nova Scotia, Canada.

SOUTH AFRICA
HAMER, W. H. - AC2c - RAFVR - Kroonstad New, Free State, South Africa.

UK
CHAPPELL, Sidney - Sgt (Flt/Engr) - 1890699 - RAFVR - South Kelsey (St. Nicholas), Lincolnshire. [ Lancaster I - R5726 - 5 LFS ].
SHEARWOOD, Leslie - Cadet 1st Class - 107 - ATC - Kidlington, Oxfordshire.
SISLEY, Robert Edward James - Sgt (A/G) - 1895505 - RAFVR - Dover (Charlton), Kent. [ Lancaster I - R5726 - 5 LFS ].

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

Re: UK (2) SHEARWOOD, Leslie ATC. See: 440405- Unaccounted Airmen-5-4-1944.

Col.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

ALGERIA
BENNETT, Edwin Frank - LAC - serving at 144 MU

LIBYA
ESSEX, Dennis Aubrey - Sgt - serving at 17 Staging Post.

CANADA
PACEY, George Robert - LAC - DOAS.

SOUTH AFRICA
HAMER, W. H. - AC2 - RAFVR - serving at 7 AS.

UK
DACRE, James Harold - Sgt - He died from injuries sustained on 18 Mar 1944 whilst flying in Stirling I, W7633 'Z' of No 1657 HCU, which crashed whilst making its eighth practice circuit that night.
HOWARTH, Edwin - AC1 - registered in Bath.
KELLY, Robert - F/S - registered in Pancras.
CHAPPELL, Sidney - Sgt (Flt/Engr) - Lancaster I - R5726 - 5 LFS.
SISLEY, Robert Edward James - Sgt (A/G) - Lancaster I - R5726 - 5 LFS.

Malcolm

[dennis_burke]

Pacey is listed as being with 36 OTU Greenwood, NS
Died of Coronary Thrombosis, RCAF Hospital Dartmouth

[Martyn A Critchlow]

HOWARTH, Edwin - AC1c - 1493638 - killed in a accident involving three lorries at Pennyquick Hill near Bath.
(Bath Weekly Chronicle, 15 April 1944)

Martyn

[RecklessRat]

HAMER, W. H. - AC2c - RAFVR

1588429 William Hardman HAMER
'Pupil Pilot, RAF'
Died Voortrekker Hospital Kroonstad, aged 28, of Meningococcal Meningitis

From the Form of Information of a Death on FamilySearch
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61...N-P?cc=3732502