470204 - Unaccounted Airmen - 04 - 02 -1947

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

470204 - Unaccounted Airmen - 04 - 02 -1947

From Henk's List -

UK
COOPER, Philip John - Petty Officer Air Mechanic(A) - L/FX.75725 - HMS Gannet - RN.
Holbrook ( All Saints ) Churchyard, Suffolk.
FROGGATT, Harold Elliott - F/Sgt - 167941 - RAF.
Normanston Cemetery, Yorkshire.
KEELING, Leonard James - LAC - 1441746 - RAFVR.
Woodgrange Park Cemetery, East Ham, Essex.
SEARLE, William John - AC1c - 1465111 - RAFVR.
Islington Cemetery & Crematorium, Middlesex.
TURTLE, William John - AC2c - 4005114 - RAFVR.
Buckna Presbyterian New Cemetery, County Antrim.

From CWGC -

AUSTRALIA
GILES, William Arthur Mackie - F/Sgt - 4785 - RAAF.
Rookwood Crematorium, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

INDIA
RICHARDSON, David Blackburn - AC2c - 2234139 - RAFVR.
Kirkee War Cemetery, India.

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

AUSTRALIA.

4785 F/Sgt William Arthur Mackie GILES RAAF.

4785 F/Sgt William Arthur Mackie GILES RAAF (ex-No.4 Service Flying Training School, R.A.A.F. H.Q. Pearce, W.A.) was officially discharged from the RAAF on 14 July, 1943. He passed away at 113th Australian General Hospital, Concord, New South Wales, from an unspecified illness on 4 February, 1947.

Col.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

UK
COOPER, Philip John - Petty Officer Air Mechanic (A) - L/FX.75725 - died at The Sanatorium, Ipswich, due to pulmonary TB.

FROGGATT, Harold Elliott - F/Sgt - 167941 - registered Lower Agbrigg, West Riding of Yorkshire.

KEELING, Leonard James - LAC - 1441746 - registered West Ham.

SEARLE, William John - AC1c - 1465111 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at Archway Hospital, London.

TURTLE, William John - AC2c - 4005114 - there is a 19 year old William Turtle, registered Fylde.

INDIA
RICHARDSON, David Blackburn - AC2c - 2234139 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at the Combined Military Hospital, Colaba, Bombay. The GRO list gives his unit as BPO India.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Turtle died suddenly at RAF hospital Weeton

[jonheyworth]

John William Turtle 4005114 , attached to RAF Weeton, was admitted dangerously ill to RAF Hospital Weeton on 3 February, dying at 01:15 Hours Of peripheral circulatory failure

[jonheyworth]

David Blackburn Richardson 2234139 , attached to BPO India, was admitted dangerously ill to the British military hospital, Colaba on 27 January, dying of typhoid fever

[jonheyworth]

William John Searle 146511 , a medically discharged Airman at the time of his death, died in Archway hospital, London , of amyloid disease , fibro caesus and tuberculosis of the lungs