450520 - Unaccounted Airwomen & Airmen - 20-05-1945

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

450520 - Unaccounted Airwomen & Airmen - 20-05-1945

From Henk's List -

WAAF
EGYPT
COOPER, Joan Allard - LACW - 478983 - WAAF - Fayid War Cemetery, Egypt.
WRIGHT , Isobel Jean Moreland - LACW - 480769 - WAAF - Fayid War Cemetery, Egypt.

BANGLADESH
SLACK, Kenneth Austin - AC2c - 3060935 - RAFVR - Maynamati War Cemetery, Bangladesh.

UK
SHANNON, Henry Victor - AC1c - 1196209 - RAFVR - 20 Sqdn - Llanfair Nant-Y-Gof (St. Mary ) Churchyard, Pembrokeshire.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

GERMANY
LANGELAAN, Leonard Herbert - Cpl - 961985 - RAFVR - Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

UK
CAMERON, David Peacock Robertson - F/O (WoP-A/G) - 186773 - RAFVR - Edinburgh (Morningside ) Cemetery, Edinburgh. [ Wellington X - NC594 - 20 OTU ].
MAWBY, Cecil George Walter - Sgt (A/G) - 1894889 - RAFVR - South Ealing Cemetery, Middlesex. [ Wellington X - NC594 - 20 OTU ].
RICKARD, Ronald Arthur - F/O (Pilot) - 187301 - RAFVR - Manchester Crematorium, Lancashire. [ Wellington X - NC594 - 20 OTU ].

Alex

[Oldduffer]

Confirmed the Wellington loss from 20 OTU. However, the accident gets worse because there were eight civilian casualties: Mrs Joey Flood 37 and five of her children aged 14, 12,7,5, and 3 and Edith Allan 67 and Vera 19.

Colin Cummings

[malcolm_raf]

Hi


WAAF
EGYPT
COOPER, Joan Allard - LACW - 107 MU.
WRIGHT , Isobel Jean Moreland - LACW - 107 MU.

BANGLADESH
SLACK, Kenneth Austin - AC2 - 7258 SE

UK
SHANNON, Henry Victor - AC1 - Registered in Haverfordwest but 20 Sqn was in the Far East.

GERMANY
LANGELAAN, Leonard Herbert - Cpl - 973 Sqn.

Malcolm

[jonheyworth]

Beatrice Mary Apthorpe 936, A code/cypher clerk with HQ Meditteranean Middle East, was taken seriously ill with diptheria on 7th December, dying in the British military hospital, Helmieh

[jonheyworth]

Henry Victor Shannon 1196209 , a medically discharged airman , died in Sealyham hospital, St. Dogwells, of pulmonary tuberculosis

[jonheyworth]

Leonard Herbert Langelaan 961985 , a cook attached to 2973 Squadron RAF Regiment, died in Number 23 General hospital of injuries sustained in at On duty MT accident which occurred on 19 May

[jonheyworth]

Kenneth Austin Slack 3060935 , attached to Number 7258 SE , was admitted dangerously ill to Number 92 Indian General hospital on 19 May, where he died of toxic psychosis