421116 - Unaccounted airmen - 16-11-1942

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Died on active service:
AC1 James A. RHODES - 1517593 - 2811 Sqn RAF Regt, and
AC1 Percy D. TRINDER - 1313007.

B - Died of wounds or injuries received on active service:
LAC John WIGNALL - 1235069.

C - Not found in Flight archives (again too many...):
AC1 Richard J. HATTON - 1216143 - age 30;
Cpl Fred H. MARRIOTT - 1502129 - 2724 Sqn RAF Regt;
P/O Eric A.P. MARTIN - 115837, and
Sgt (Pilot) Wilfred C. SPENCER - 748008.

D - Proposed aircraft losses:
Botha I - W5139 - 4 AGS - crashed on take-off Morpeth.
Botha I - L6339 - 4 AGS - crashed on landing Morpeth.
Tiger Moth II - T7754 - 239 Sqn - crashed in forced landing Salford, 2 miles S of Cranfield.
Whitley V - T4268 - 3 (C)OTU - crashed on landing Upwood.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Henk

AC1 James A. RHODES - 1517593 - 2811 Sqn RAF Regt, - not Eng/Wales
AC1 Percy D. TRINDER - 1313007 - Buckrose, East Yorkshire
LAC John WIGNALL - 1235069 - Northumberland Central
AC1 Richard J. HATTON - 1216143 - Greenwich, London
Cpl Fred H. MARRIOTT - 1502129 - 2724 Sqn RAF Regt - Grantham, Lincolnhire
P/O Eric A.P. MARTIN - 115837 - Wigton, Cumberland
Sgt (Pilot) Wilfred C. SPENCER - 748008 - Southampton, Hampshire

Malcolm

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Malcolm. As far as I can see no match to any of the proposed aircraft losses.
Regards,
Henk.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Henk

Northumberland Central covers Morpeth so the Bothas may be a possibility for Wignall

Malcolm

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Malcolm. Will try to obtain info of the crew on the loss cards.
Regards,
Henk.

[dennis_burke]

P/O E. A.P. MARTIN shows up DOAS in the Feb 11th Times Casualty list.

The other three men are not on that list!

[Ross_McNeill]

F1180 confirms Wignall as sole fatality on W5139. Pilot Sgt J Zalenski PAF.

Regards
Ross

[wwrsimon]

Hello

AC1 James A. RHODES - 1517593 - nothing on Scotland's People. There's a James Rhodes, aged 33, registered December 1942 at Acle, Norfolk.

Cpl Fred H. MARRIOTT - 1502129 - the Grantham Journal of Novemebr 20th 1942 reported the following:

"I am satisfied there was no evidence that this man deliberatley intended to take his own life," stated the deputy Coroner, Mr. W Hamilton, at an inquest at Grantham on Tuesday on Corpl. Fred Hugh Marriott, R.A.F. Regiment, whose home address was stated to be 2, Westwood Avenue, Swanpool, Lincoln, who succumbed almost immediately from a fifle shot wound believed to have been inflicted whilst he was practising loading his rifle in his billet the previous day.

P/O Eric A.P. MARTIN - 115837 - the Lincolnshire Echo of November 17th 1942 carried the following announcement:

MARTIN - On the 16th November, on active service (suddenly, of pneumonia), P/O Eric Anthony Procter Martin, R.A.F.V.R., age 21.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

CORRECTION to Norman Thomas Kolesar R 148953 , attached to Number 3 FIS at Arnprior, Ontario, he shot himself through the head with a revolver at 0600 hours and was transferred from SSQ to Ottawa Civic hospital at 10:00 hours, where despite an operation he remained unresponsive and died at 15:30 hours.

[jonheyworth]

Wilfred Charles Spencer 748008, a medically discharged airman at the time of his death, died at 7 Merryoak Road, Southampton, of pulmonary tuberculosis