460326 - Unaccounted Airmen - 26-03-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460326 - Unaccounted Airmen 26-03-1946

From Henk's List -

UK
LOVETT, Frederick John LAC - 932011 - RAFVR - Bramfield ( St. Andrew ) Churchyard, Suffolk.
STONES, John Michael - LAC - 941331 - RAFVR - Lower Mutton ( St. Michael ) Churchyard, Worcestershire.
WARDELL, Leonard Sydney - LAC - 1466115 - RAFVR - Pinner Cemetery, Middlesex.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

AUSTRALIA
CLAPP, Alexander Frederick - LAC - 81227 - RAAF - Perth War Cemetery and Annex, Western Australia, Australia.
SMEATH, Norman Charles - LAC - 85890 - RAAF - Perth War Cemetery and Annex, Western Australia, Australia.

CHINA ( inc Hong Kong )
CUMMING, Roderick - F/Lt(WoP) - 159961 - RAFVR - 243 Sqdn - Sai Wan War Cemetery, China(inc Hong Kong ).
HALL, Joseph - F/Lt - 149270 - RAFVR - Sai Wan War Cemetery, China( inc Hong Kong ).
WARBURTON, Guy Charles Gladice - F/Lt(Pilot) - 160675 - RAFVR - Sai Wan War Cemetery, China( inc Hong Kong).
The three airmen listed above were crew of Dakota IV - KN366 - 243 Sqdn along with passenger, CARR, W. H. A , Sub Inspector Hong Kong Police Force who is also at rest at Sai Wan War Cemetery.

UK
IVES, Arthur William - LAC - 1247700 - RAFVR - Runnymede Memorial, Surrey.

Alex

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

UK
LOVETT, Frederick John LAC - registered in Rugby.
STONES, John Michael - LAC - registered in Kidderminster.
WARDELL, Leonard Sydney - LAC - registered in Hendon.
IVES, Arthur William - LAC - not in GRO lists

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

Alex/Malcolm

UK
IVES, Arthur William - LAC - 1247700 - the National Probate Calendar has an Arthur William Ives, died March 26th 1946 at Westminster Hospital, London.

LOVETT, Frederick John LAC - 932011 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at the Hospital of St. Cross, Rugby. The Rugby Advertiser of March 29th 1946 reported the following:

Young R.A.F. Man Killed
Motor Cyclist Hits Telegraph Pole
A young R.A.F. man who had recently returned from three and a half years' captivity in Japanese hands, was killed at Stretton-under-Fosse while motor-cycling on Tuesday afternoon.
The man was L.A.C. Frederick John Lovett (24), R.A.F., Newbold Revel, whose home was at South Elmham, Harleston, Norfolk.

STONES, John Michael - LAC - 941331 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at the District General Hospital, Kidderminster.

Regards

Simon

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

AUSTRALIA.

85890 LAC Norman Charles SMEATH RAAF.

85890 LAC (General Hand) Norman Charles SMEATH RAAF (of No.4 Transport & Movement Office), was killed in a motor truck accident on 26 March, 1946. The RAAF truck in which he was riding, overturned three times on the Bassendean Road, Perth, and caught fire, incinerating LAC Smeath. Two others on the vehicle, 80734 LAC (D.M.T.) William Clarence McNamara RAAF, and civilian/passenger Keith Watkins, were thrown from the truck and injured.

The driver of the vehicle could not be determined due to the medical condition (injured, and unconscious), of the two survivors.

Col.

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

AUSTRALIA.

81227 LAC Alexander Frederick CLAPP RAAF.

81227 LAC Alexander Frederick CLAPP (ex-No.10 Repair & Salvage Unit, Morotai), died on 26 March, 1946, of an unspecified illness in the 71st Camp Hospital, Northam, Western Australia.

Col.

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

UK.

Re: 932011 LAC Frederick John LOVETT RAFVR.

LOVETT, Frederick John - 932011 - 100 Squadron - Held Java, Singapore, Thailand (Hintok), Singapore.

See:
Unsung Heroes of the Royal Air Force The Far East Prisoners of War.
Stubbs,Len & Pam.
Grantham:Barny Books,2002.
p.171.

Col