CWGC Errors

**vrajm** · 15th January 2022, 17:08

Hi Jagan,

F/Lt (116137) Arthur Maurice CROW DSO DFM (nav.) RAFVR, Mosquito PR Mk XVI NS791 - 544 Squadron – NOT 540 Sqdn.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/fi...rthur-maurice/

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=165339
https://discovery.nationalarchives.g...ils/r/D8414873

His D.F.M. is missed here:
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/...php?qnum=10283

He was awarded the D.F.M. in July 1942. The award was gazetted:
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/...upplement/2981

His pilot:

F/Lt (NZ411439) Olaf Patrick OLSON DFC (pilot) RNZAF – POW

Regards

Mojmir

**Ross_McNeill** · 24th January 2022, 17:04

http://www.rafcommands.com/database/...php?qnum=35021

F/Sgt Pascoe 566229

date of death 15th April 1944 is incorrect - his correct death of death is 14th April - confirmed by ORB and death certificate.

CWGC amending record and headstone.

Ross

**Jagan** · 27th January 2022, 15:26

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/fi...15586/desai,-/
LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN S J DESAI Service Number: IND/25908
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Indian Air Force

Date of Death Died 24 February 1946 (To be corrected to 24 March 1946)

Buried or commemorated at
HONG KONG (HAPPY VALLEY) PARSEE CEMETERY Grave 115. China, (including Hong Kong)

https://archive.cloud.cwgc.org/archi...doc5734441.JPG This is the honour roll - it has the month struck off by pen and changed to February from March
https://archive.cloud.cwgc.org/archi...doc3455989.JPG Grave Registration form has 24 March 1946

Here is the other reason to believe the date is March.

Finding an RIAF airman buried so far away in Hong Kong is an anamoly. The one connection I can make is that No.4 Squadron RIAF went to Japan as part of the BCOF. True enough, the ORB of 4 Sqdn (AIR27/61/9) has the following:

5.2.46 1000Hrs On 5th March 1946 the advance party (3 officers, 1 WO, 2 Sgts, 9 Cpls, 50 ACs and 10 EFs) embarked on ship M V DUNERA
15.3.46 MV DUNERA steamed into Singapore
22.3.46 MV DUNERA touched Hongkong. Another march past was arranged. One Officer and Sixty men represented the RIAF
30.3.46 MV DUNERA reached Kure

It seems highly likely that LAC S J Desai was part of the detachment of 4 Sqdn and died of unknown causes while the ship was in Hongkong. As per his religion, he was buried in the local Parsi cemetery - thus the lone grave in that cemetery

EDIT: TWGPP has a photo of the headstone https://www.twgpp.org/photograph/view/3549641 that appears to show his full name. I have ordered the photo and made the donation.

ADDED LATER.

The Photo sent by TWGPP has the full name of the airman LAC Soli Jehangir Framji DESAI RIAF but the date it has on the tombstone is 24th February 1946. The headstone is not the CWGC Style but a private headstone probably erected by the local parsi community.

**jonheyworth** · 28th January 2022, 18:23

Harold John Bean 1533469 , appears to have died in 1947 , not 1941 as per this database

**paulmcmillan** · 28th January 2022, 19:38

Name: Harold John Bean
Rank: Sergeant
Death Age: 37
Birth Year: abt 1910
Death Date: 26 Aug 1947
Military Base: Bicester, Oxon
Service Number: 1533569
Unit: 246 Maintenance Unit
Command: Maintenance Cmnd
Residence Place: Reading, Berkshire
Burial Place: Oxford (Botley) Cemetery

**paulmcmillan** · 6th May 2022, 13:08

This airman is listed under the name JEREY on CWGC

He was previously in RAF commissioned under name Leonard Thomas JEAREY in 1931

Flying Officer Leonard Thomas JEAREY resigns his short service commission. 26th Jan. 1934.

He is on Air 78 as

Viewed First Name Surname Service Number Rank Record Year Unit
Leonard Thomas Jearey 778264 1940 Royal Air Force

His death cert says Leonard Thomas JEAREY

His parents were

John George Jearey
Louisa Isabella Stegman

The name JEREY is wrong

http://www.southafricawargraves.org/...s.php?id=11175

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/fi...eonard-thomas/

**John Williams** · 6th May 2022, 20:47

Hi Paul,

Drop a line to the CWGC they will review it and then correct it. I had an Aussie KIA in WW1 that with a relative’s approval had an inscription put on his headstone, the CWGC didn’t change it on their website so I got them to add it on which they did.

Cheers,

John.