440416 - Unaccounted Airmen - 16-4-1944

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

440416 - Unaccounted Airmen - 16-4-1944

From Henk's list -

UK
HARRISON, James - Sgt(Pilot) - 1439228 - RAFVR - Hoghton (Holy Trinity), Lancashire.
MIDDLETON, Walter Donald - AC1c - 1714830 - RAFVR - Hither Green, London.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

Nil

Alex

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

HARRISON, James - Sgt(Pilot) - possibly killed whilst flying in Oxford I, LX646 of No 21 (P) AFU Sqn, which flew into trees on a night take off from Wheaton Aston.
MIDDLETON, Walter Donald - AC1 - not Eng/Wales?
Malcolm

[Martyn A Critchlow]

MIDDLETON, Walter Donald - AC1c - 1714830
Died on Active Service - Communique No 405

http://skynet.ie/~dan/war/flightsa/1...nscription.htm

Martyn

[Martyn A Critchlow]

MIDDLETON, Walter Donald - AC1c - 1714830
Probate lists him as Donald Walter Middleton of 9 Chalcroft Road Lewisham London Died 16th April 1944 at Twyerswood Road Block Hull Road Hedon Yorkshire.

Registered Holderness Q2 1944

Martyn

[malcolm_raf]

I obviously should have also looked for D W rather than W D Middleton as he died about 10 miles away from me.

Malcolm

[jonheyworth]

Arthur James Robert Strachan 997 , attached to 5 AOS, died in the Deer Lodge hospital, Winnnipeg , of post operative complications

[jonheyworth]

John Turnbull 1097185 , died in Lincoln military hospital,of injuries sustained when his bicycle collided with a lorry near Wragby, when he was on the wrong side of the road

[jonheyworth]

V D Kulkharni IND / 10046 , attached to Number 1 ( I ) Signals School , died of burns sustained on 7 April whilst trying to extinguish his wife's dress which had caught fire from a stove

[jonheyworth]

Walter Donald Middleton 1714830 ,attached to AMES G 15082 , was killed in a road accident on the Hull Road in Hedon when a 3 ton Crossley lorry collided with a concrete road block