471212- Unaccounted Airmen - 12-12-1947

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

471212- Unaccounted Airmen - 12-12-1947

From Henk's List -

UK
TRACY, Anthony Peter Hanbury - Lt(A) - 771 Sqn - HMS Daedalus - RN.
Lee-On-Solent Memorial, hampshire.
[ Seafire F.45 - 771 Sqn - LA489 ].

From CWGC -

CANADA
TOWN, Robert - Sgt - R/119888 - RCAF.
Winnipeg ( Brookside ) Cemetery, Manitoba, Canada.

Alex

[wwrsimon]

Hello

UK
TRACY, Anthony Peter Hanbury - Lt(A) - 771 Sqn - his death was reported in a few newspapers at the time. The Nottingham Journal of December 13th 1947 reported:

A search is being made for the pilot (Lt. A. Anthony Tracy, R.N.) of a naval Seafire aircraft from Lee-on-Solent (Hants.) which crashed yesterday into the sea off Calshot in the Solent and sank.

Regards

Simon

[paulmcmillan]

Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948






Name: Robert Town
Death Date: 12/12/1947 (12 Dec 1947)
Rank: Sergeant
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Service Number: R.119888
Cemetery: Brookside Cemetery
Burial Place: Winnipeg Canada

Death due to Myelogenous leukaemia at Deer Lodge hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death was due to Service