400407 - Unaccounted Airmen - 07-04-1940

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

400407 - Unaccounted Airmen - 07-04-1940

From Henk's List -

UK
MENZIES, Andrew Dowie - AC2c - 633568 - RAF.
Dundee Eastern Necropolis, Angus.
DOAS, Cause ?

From CWGC -

FRANCE
BRANTON, John Royal - Sgt(Obs) - 564122 - RAF - 226 Sqn.
DAVIES, Percy Kenyon - Lac(Wop) - 540572 - RAF - 226 Sqn.
The two airmen named above were crew of Battle I - P2265 - 226 Sqn.

FARRELL, Patrick Arthur Ludlow - F/O(Pilot) - 39866 - RAF - 142 Sqn.
RAPER, Leslie Alfred - Sgt(Wop) - 516071 - RAF - 142 Sqn.
WILBURN, Clifford Edgar - Cpl(Wop) - 534269 - RAF - 142 Sqn
The three airmen named above were crew of Battle I - N2088 - 142 Sqn.

The five aimen named above all rest at Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, Pas de Calais, France.

UK
BAILEY, Henry - F/Lt(Pilot) - 24195 - RAF(RAFO).
Hull Crematorium, Yorkshire.
[ Blackburn B-20 - V8914 - MA&EE ].

BROOKE-TAYLOR, Keith( New Zealand) - P/O(Pilot) - 41251 - RAF - 83 Sqn.
ROBERTS, Wilfred( New Zealand ) - P/O(Pilot) - 40319 - RAF - 83 Sqn.
The above two airmen rest at Chevingon Cemetery, Northumberland.
McNICOL, Andrew - Sgt(Obs) - 563207 - RAF - 83 Sqn.
Barrow-in-Furness ( Thornecliffe) Cemetery & Crematorium, Lancashire.
SHARPE, Denis William - AC1c - 541437 - RAF - 83 Sqn
Runnymede Memorial, Surrey.
The four airmen named above were crew of Hampden I - L4054 - 83 Sqn.

ABLETT, Henry George - AC2c - 626935 - RAF.
CHESTER-MASTER, Julian Paul - P/O - 76006 - RAFVR.
MacDONALD, William Livingstone - Sgt - 580877 - RAF.
PEEL, Robert Charles - AC2c - 629076 -RAF.
WARDLAW, David Herbert - P/O - 40157 - RAF.
WICKENKAMP, Estelle's Arthur( Canada) - P/O - 41088 - RAF.
The six airmen named above were crew of Wellington Is - P2524 - 115 Sqn.
They are remembered on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey.

ARMSTRONG, Daniel - Lac - 543847 - RAF.
GAYFORD, Roy Allen(Canada) - P/O - 40295 - RAF.
MORE, Robert John - Sgt - 522730 - RAF.
MOSS, John - AC1c - 629737 - RAF.
MURPHY, Michael Francis( Eire) - Sgt - 580735 - RAF.
NICOL, William Frederick - Sgt - 740335 - RAFVR.
These six airmen were crew of Wellington Is - N2949 - 115 Sqn.
They are remembered on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey.

VICKERY, Kenneth Primrose - P/O(Pilot) - 566236 - RAF - 263 Sqn.
Gladiator II - N5623 - 263 Sqn.
Remembered on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey.

Alex

[RecklessRat]

Hi Alex,

VICKERY, Kenneth Primrose - Sgt(Pilot) - 566236 - RAF - 263 Sqn.

Took off from Filton to carry out air firing at Sand Bay and a sector patrol. The section leader (P/O Craig-Adams) abandoned the patrol between Portishead and Clevedon due to deteriorating weather of cloud and rain, and issued an order for a right turn to return to base. Yellow 3 (Sgt Whall) followed the turn but Sgt Vickery, on the inside of the formation, missed the turn and reported over R/T that he had lost sight of the others. Approximately 15 minutes later, 74 Battery reported to the Filton Ops Room that an aircraft had fallen into the sea near Portishead and later added that "a civilian had seen three aircraft disappear into a cloud of mist and one appeared out of the mist in a dive and this was subsequently followed by an explosion, after which he saw the other two aircraft come out of the mist."

Subsequent searches of the area by air and sea had no result. Two weeks later, parts from the fuselage were washed ashore near Portishead, but no trace of Sgt Vickery was found.

From AIR 81/1981

[wwrsimon]

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UK
MENZIES, Andrew Dowie - AC2c - 633568 - the Statutory Deaths Register on the Scotland's People website records that he died at 5.30 a.m. at the Military Hospital, Buchanan, due to Tubercular Corcis [?] of the spine, and meningitis.

Regards

Simon