401103 - Unaccounted Airmen - 03-11-1940

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

401103 - Unaccounted Airmen - 03-11-1940

From Henk's List -

UK
DYAS, Maurice Arthur - AC2c - 1280320 - RAF.
Hockley (St Peter) Churchyard, Essex.
Cause of death ?

GODFREY, Lemuel - AC2c - 1355760 - RAFVR.
Yatesbury (All Saints) Churchyard, Wiltshire.
Died in RAF Hospital, Yatesbury, NFD ?

GREGORY, Peter Louis - Sgt - 745756 - RAFVR.
Cheltenham Cemetery Prestbury,Gloucestershire.
Taken ill some five months earlier (Rheumatic Fever). Then followed appendicitis. Despite an operation he deteriorated and finally succumbed this date.

KNOWLES, Stanley - AC2c - 1106586 - RAFVR.
Wigan Cemetery, Lancashire.
Killed during an Air Raid on RAF Kidlington.

READ, George - Sqn/Ldr - 73585 - RAF.
Bradford Crematorium, Yorkshire.
He was a passenger in a motor car that collided with an Army lorry in the black out.

WHITTINGTON, Robert Charles - Cp - 567126 - RAF - 308(Polish)Sqn.
Penarth (St.Augustine of Hippo) Churchyard, Glamorganshire.
Suicide, shot himself with his service rifle.

From CWGC -

MALTA
ALLEN, David Ross (Canadian) - P/O - 42783 - RAF.
Malta (Capuccini) Naval Cemetery, Malta.
Wellington Ic - T2743 - 148 Sqn(Wellington Flight).

UK
PEMBERTON, David Alwyne - Sqn/Ldr - 33036 - RAF - DFC,MiD.
Broadway (St.Eadburgh) New Churchyard, Worcestershire.
Hurricane I - P2751 - 1 Sqn.

GREEN, John Henry - Sgt - 639031 - RAF.
REDGROVE, Basil Edward - Sgt - 740422 - RAFVR.
These two airmen rest at Scampton (St.John the Baptist) Churchyard, Lincolnshire.
ROWLANDS, Robert Rankin McHarry - AC2c - 1108295 - RAFVR.
St Helens Cemetery, Lancashire.
These three airmen were crew of Hampden I - X2978 - 83 Sqn.

TOOTH, Douglas Ronald Noel - Lac - 905289 - RAFVR.
Little Rissington (St.Peter) Churchyard, Gloucestershire.
Anson I - L7926 - 6 SFTS.

GILBERT, Henry Gordon - P/O - 44192 - RAF.
GREIG, James - Sgt - 619903 - RAF.
THORNDYKE, Henry Frank - Sgt - 747794 - RAFVR.
WILLIAMS, Lionel Graham - P/O - 42550 - RAF.
These four airmen were crew of Hudson I - N7374 - 233 Sqn.

BAYLISS, Ernest John - Sgt - 581431 - RAF.
GARRAD, Anthony Hugh Hamilton - P/O - 42119 - RAF.
MOYNHAM, Harold Frederick John - Sgt - 634201 - RAF.
These three airmen were crew of Blenheim IV - L9392 - 248 Sqn.

The seven airmen named above are all commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey.

KROHN, Willi - GAF.
ZUMBROCK, Ferdinand - GAF.
These two German airmen rest at Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery, Staffordshire.
Cause of death ?

Alex

[Andy Marden]

KROHN, Willi - GAF.
ZUMBROCK, Ferdinand - GAF.
These two German airmen rest at Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery, Staffordshire.
Cause of death ?

Crew of Do17Z-2 2573 5K+CS of 8./KG3, shot down by Hurricanes of 46 Sqn near Bexley, Kent.

[wwrsimon]

Alex

GODFREY, Lemuel - AC2c - 1355760 - his death ws announced in the Western Gazetteof November 15th 1940:

GODFREY - on the 3rd November, at an R.A.F Military Hospital, A.C. Lemuel Godfrey, after a short illness, aged 47 years.

He was the holder of the Military Medal, and had served in the Machine Gun Corps in WW1, regimental number 36711.

Regards

Simon