470313 - Unaccounted Airman - 13-03-1947

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

470313 - Unaccounted Airman - 13-03-1947

From Henk's List -

UK
BARR, Benjamin - AC1c - 1083801 - RAFVR.
Coleraine Cemetery, County Londonderry.
BROWN, Patrick Spencer - F/Sgt - 541568 - RAF.
Ipswich Old Cemetery, Suffolk.
DUFF, Henry - AC1c - 1067104 - RAFVR.
Winscombe ( St. James the Great ) Churchyard, Somerset.

From CWGC -

AUSTRALIA
KINGSTON, Kennerley Birch - W/O - 400386 - RAAF.
Springvale Crematorium, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

AUSTRALIA.

400386 W/O Kennerley Birch KINGSTON RAAF.

400386 W/O Kennerley Birch KINGSTON RAAF (ex-No.1 Squadron RAAF), was officially discharged from the RAAF on 16 February, 1946. Kingston had been taken prisoner in Java, 8 March, 1942 (POW No.8484) . He was subsequently on the Burma Railway and later held at Omuta-Fukuoka #17, Japan (working in the mines), and released at the end of the war. Kennerley Kingston, who had married on 29 February, 1946, was found dead by his wife in their flat at Mornington, Victoria, on 13 March, 1947, a single-barrelled shotgun by his side. Kingston, an ex-Melbourne Grammar School Old Boy, had been in ill-health for some time and had been receiving treatment at the Heidelberg Military Hospital.

Col.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

UK
BARR, Benjamin - AC1c - 1083801 - registered in Northern Ireland?

BROWN, Patrick Spencer - F/Sgt - 541568 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at R.A.F. Pembroke Dock.

DUFF, Henry - AC1c - 1067104 - registered Weston-super-Mare.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Benjamin Barr 1083801 , a medically discharged airman, died at 21 Taylors Row, Coleraine of pulmonary tuberculosis

[jonheyworth]

Patrick Spencer Brown 541568 , attached to RAF Pembroke Dock, died on duty of a self inflicted gun shot wound