460621 - Unaccounted Airmen - 21-06-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460621 - Unaccounted Airmen - 21-06-1946

From Henk's List -

GERMANY
JOHNSTON, Thomas Herbert - LAC - 1798342 - RAFVR - Celle War Cemetery, Niedersachsen, Germany.

SOUTH AFRICA
MACKENZIE, A. M - Air Mechanic - 208158 - SAAF - Pretoria ( Rebecca Street ) Cemetery, Gauteng, South Africa.

UK
GRIFFITHS, Eric William - LAC - 1138397 - RAFVR - Andreas ( St. Andrew ) Churchyard, Isle of Man.
REEVES, William Thomas - F/Lt - 52793 - RAF - Fleur-De-Lis, Church Cemetery, Monmouthshire.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

MALTA
BRITTON, Edwin Michael - Lt/Cdr(A) - HMS Falcon - Royal Navy - Malta ( Capuccini ) Naval Cemetery, Malta - [ Beaufighter X - NV483 - 728 Sqdn FAA ] - The Beaufighter crashed on take off on the 1st June, Lt/CDR Briton died of injuries on the 21st.
I have no idea if a second airman or passenger was on the a/c, anything known ?

SINGAPORE
MEADOWS, Percy Henry - Cpl - 1725834 - RAFVR - Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore.

Alex

[wwrsimon]

Alex

GERMANY
JOHNSTON, Thomas Herbert - LAC - 1798342 - 84 G.C.C./70

UK
GRIFFITHS, Eric William - LAC - 1138397 - registered Isle of Man?

REEVES, William Thomas - F/Lt - 52793 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at the R.A.F. Hospital, St. Athan.

SINGAPORE
MEADOWS, Percy Henry - Cpl - 1725834 - 535 Wing. The Banbury Advertiser of June 26th 1946 reported the following:

DEATH OF CPL. P. H. MEADOWS
ACCIDENT IN MALAYA
The death occurred on Friday in Malaya, as a result, we understand, of an accident with a tractor, of Cpl. Percy Henry Meadows, R.A.F., aged 20 years.

Regards

Simon

[RecklessRat]

MACKENZIE, A. M - Air Mechanic - 208158

Alexander Maxwell Mackenzie
Air Mechanic - Medical Unfit Pension
Died General Hospital, Praetoria, aged 40, of Congestive Cardiac Failure, with Mitral Stenosis


From the Form of Information of a Death on Familysearch

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W67M-2NT2

[jonheyworth]

William Thomas Reeves 52793, a technical engineering officer attached to Number 1 PHU, RAF Innsworth, died in RAF Hospital St. Athan, of pulmonary tuberculosis on the day of his admission

[jonheyworth]

Thomas Herbert Johnston 1798342 , attached to Number 84 GOC/70 , died in Number 54 RAF Hospital, Celle, of bronchial pneumonia

[jonheyworth]

Eric William Griffiths 1138397 , attached to Number 1 PHU , died in Cronk Ruagh sanatorium Douglas , of bilateral pulmonary tuberculosis