Unaccounted Airmen - Unknown Aircraft, Incorrect Serials, Unidentified Types

[Alex Smart]

Hello Paul,
I did in the end find him in Scotlands People and in Findagrave.

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discovery...b1652bbd24c641

[Alex Smart]

Have a problem with these results,
4/5/44 - BARTER, A,B -Lt - 2 RSU - JG126.
And
15/8/44 - TROBRIDGE, D,A,G - W/O - 3 ADU - JF494.
Both aircraft said to be Spitfire's.
However both serial numbers did not exist. The numbers fall between series and so they cannot be correct.

JG126
Series of Mk.VIII's . Starts JG104 to JG124. And continues JG157 to JG204. Gap JG125 to JG203.
Cannot find any a/c with serial numbers in the JG 125 to JG203 range.
But could be JK126 or JL126 perhaps.

Similar with JF494
Again Spitfire 's Mk VIII's. Starts JF443 to JF485 then a gap to JF501 to JF528. Gap JF486 to JF500.
Cannot find any a/c with serial numbers in the JF486 to JF500 range.
But could be JG494 soc 31.8.44.

Alex

[paulmcmillan]

Alex please can you post McFall enrobing Scotland’s people thanks

[Alex Smart]

Hi Paul,
For Scotland's People, I have run out of credits for now but just temporary.
Here is similar -

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...william-mcfall


https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discovery.../1202637:60526

Marriage Certificate
Sending you an email

Alex

[paulmcmillan]

Thank you, I got it via email

Alex - so just to confirm you found his Marriage on Scotlands People but not death ? Maybe Northern Ireland or IoM then ?Thanks Paul

[paulmcmillan]

His Service record on FMP (but can only read access to index)

William
McFall
1890
Lanarkshire
1916
20660
Joiner

So WW1 Airman who re-joined probably for WW2 (his Marriage Cert form 1920 says Sprit Salesman) - so looks like demobbed..

[paulmcmillan]

By trying the free Northern Ireland BMD deaths search- I can confirm a William McFall died sometime in 1943 -in Belfast That's all

[paulmcmillan]

Bingo

Name: William McFall
Rank: Sergeant
Death Age: 53
Birth Year: abt 1890
Death Date: 1 Jun 1943
Military Base: Nutts Corner, Co. Antrim, Ni
Service Number: 20660
Unit: 104 Operational Training Unit
Command: Transport Cmnd
Residence Place: Burnbank, Lanarkshire
Burial Place: Hamilton West Cemetery, Lanarkshire

[jonheyworth]

I’ll have a look for you boys , see what I can get

[jonheyworth]

Well he died in Stranmills hospital, Belfast, of an intracranial heamorhage due to a fractured skull.. the cause is in the most illegible handwriting imaginable . I'll have to look a little deeper into another source to see if its written elsewhere by a spider that wasn't drunk, blind and dyslexic