460323 - Unaccounted Airmen - 23-03-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460323 - Unaccounted Airmen - 23-03-1946

From Henk's List -

CANADA
TRIBE, Ernest Woodman - Sqd/Ldr - C/2723 - RCAF - Burnaby ( Ocean View ) Burial Park, British Columbia, Canada.

UK
ALLDRED, Thomas - LAC - 1499187 - RAFVR - Leigh Cemetery, Lancashire.
HASKINGS, Donald Frederick - LAC - 1400965 - RAFVR - Bristol ( Arno's Vale ) Crematorium, Gloucestershire.
SMITH, Anthony Matthew - F/Lt - 124692 - RAFVR - Seems ( Holy Cross ) Churchyard, Wiltshire.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

AUSTRALIA
TURNER, George Frederick - Sgt - 10839 - RAAF - Springvale War Cemetery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Alex

[Lyffe]

Alex, re Smith. I think that should be 'Seend' churchyard. So far as I'm aware there is no 'Seems' in Wiltshire, but the Seend church is Holy Cross.

Brian

[alieneyes]

CANADA
TRIBE, Ernest Woodman - Sqd/Ldr - C/2723

Deceased coronary occlusion, Shaughnessy Hospital, Vancouver.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

UK
ALLDRED, Thomas - LAC - registered in the Leigh (2nd Qtr).
HASKINGS, Donald Frederick - LAC - registered in Taunton.
SMITH, Anthony Matthew - F/Lt - It is Seend and he was registered in Devizes.

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

Hello

SMITH, Anthony Matthew - F/Lt - 124692 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at the District Hospital, Devizes. The Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser of March 30th 1946 printed a lengthy tribute, and reports that he died after a long illness:

'Joining the R.A.F. in June, in September 1941 he went to Canada under the Empire Air Training Scheme, gaining his wings and a commission, and was posted to Charlottedtwon, Prince Edward Island. Here he was engaged in anti-submarine patrols of the St. Lawrence estuary and was a navigation instructor. After two and a half years in Canada he flew back as pilot of a Dakota to Prestwick, and finally became pilot and captain of a Lancaster Pathfinder bomber, stationed in Hampshire.
Last July Flt.-Lt. Smith was admitted to the R.A.F. Hospital at Ely, and transferred to the Devizes Hospital in November.'

Regards

Simon

[Alex Smart]

Alex, re Smith. I think that should be 'Seend' churchyard. So far as I'm aware there is no 'Seems' in Wiltshire, but the Seend church is Holy Cross.

Brian

Thanks Brian for the correction, me and my tablet again.
Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

AUSTRALIA.

10839 Sgt George Frederick TURNER RAAF.

10839 Sgt (Cook) George Frederick TURNER RAAF (of No.1 Personnel Depot, Ransford [Melbourne Cricket Ground]), died of bronchopneumonia/sarcoma, from generalised metastasis of original sarcoma on left leg, on 23 March, 1946, at No.6 RAAF Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria.

Col.

[jonheyworth]

Anthony Matthew Smith 124692 , taken ill on 7 August 1945 and admitted to RAF hospital Ely, died in the Devizes and District hospital of luekaemia