460716 - Unaccounted Airmen - 16-07-1946

**Alex Smart** · 29th December 2017, 21:48

Hello,

460716 - Unaccounted Airmen - 16-07-1946

From Henk's List -

GREECE
MALIPHANT, Frank - LAC - 1653135 - RAFVR
Rhodes War Cemetery, Greece.

SOUTH AFRICA
VERMAAK, Xavier - Lt - 103424V - SAAF - 2 Sqdn.
Bedford Cemetery, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

UK
DICK, James Johnston - F/Sgt - 1064627 - RAFVR.
East Wemyss Cemetery, Fifeshire.
MARLEY, Phillip Anthony - AC2c - 772116 - RAFVR.
Sheffield ( City Road ) Cemetery, Yorkshire …
MELVILLE, James Russell - Cpl - 1240637 - RAFVR.
Cleethorpes Cemetery, Lincolnshire.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

GERMANY
TAYLOR, William Edward - LAC - 650643 - RAF.
Hanover War Cemetery, Niedersachsen, Germany.

UK
POSTLER, Kurt - GAF .
Hastings Cemetery, Sussex.

Alex

**malcolm_raf** · 30th December 2017, 09:34

Hi

GREECE
MALIPHANT, Frank - LAC - 124 SP

UK
DICK, James Johnston - F/Sgt - registered in Grantham
MARLEY, Phillip Anthony - AC2 - registered in Peterborough
MELVILLE, James Russell - Cpl - registered in Grimsby

GERMANY
TAYLOR, William Edward - LAC - 8301 Air Disarmament Wing

Malcolm

**wwrsimon** · 30th December 2017, 10:50

Alex/Malcolm

A little more on the following:

GREECE
MALIPHANT, Frank - LAC - 1653135 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at 114 Indian Light Field Ambulance Hospital, Rhodes.

UK
DICK, James Johnston - F/Sgt - 1064627 - the Fife Free Press of July 27th 1946 reported the following:

AIRMAN FATALLY INJURED
Mr and Mrs James Dick, 136 Taylor Street, Aberhill, have suffered a tragfic blow with the death of their only son, Warrant Officer James Johnstone [sic] Dick, R.A.F., following a motor cycle accident in which he was involved at Grantham.

The Grantham Journal of July 26th reported that the accident occurred near the Burton Coggles turning on the Corby-Grantham road a little after 10.30 p.m.

MELVILLE, James Russell - Cpl - 1240637 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at the General Hospital, Grimsby.

GERMANY
TAYLOR, William Edward - LAC - 650643 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at Weyhausen, Western Germany.

UK
POSTLER, Kurt - GAF - registered Hastings.

Regards

Simon

**jonheyworth** · 3rd January 2021, 10:29

James johnson died of tb see facebook plugin comment for details

**jonheyworth** · 22nd April 2021, 13:37

Frank Maliphant 1653135 , was admitted to 114 light field ambulance hospital on Rhodes on 13th July but died at 07:15 hours on the 16th of gas gangrene of the left thigh