Llewellyn Corrie Jones-Bateman

[thorne83]

Hello gents, i posted a query a number of months ago regarding this airmans pre war service, but i am returning to it to find out some more details.

Can anyone who still has access to the Times online see if he appears following his death on the 12th June 1943? Unfortunately i can no longer check it! He flew Gladiators with 80 Squadron pre war and then seems to have transferred at some point to the FAA. CWGC has no next of kin info and i am trying to find out if his father was Llewellyn Jones-Bateman KIA in 1916? I can find no birth register for L C Jones-Bateman, so he may have been born overseas. I was hoping that the Times might, just might, have a small obituary for him or even a birth notice?

Any other input is welcomed! Anyone know his cause of death also? I presume it was a non flying accident.

Cheers, Tom

[Resmoroh]

Tom, Hi,
A few snippets
23 Dec 35 L C J-B A/Plt Off on Probation (Times)
8 Dec 36 L C J-B confirmed Plt Off in GD Branch (Times)
24 Jul 38 Plt Off L C J-B resigns his Commission (Times?)
5 Aug 42 T/Sub-Lt(A) L C J-B to be T/Lt(A) (in FAA?) (LG)
24 Jun 43 Lt L C J-B missing from an A/S Patrol (Times)
HTH
Peter Davies

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello Tom,

12 June 1943
FAA 821 Sqn, St Angelo, air operations
PENNINGTON,Murray, Ty/Sub Lieutenant (A), RNVR, killed
..
St Angelo, air operations
JONES-BATEMAN,Llewellyn C, Lieutenant (A) RNVR, killed

http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1943-06JUN.htm

821 Sqn. FAA, was operating Albacores at the time of Jones-Bateman's death. They were based in the Tunis area for anti-submarine patrols.

See; The Squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm.
Sturtivant,Ray
Tonbridge:Air Britain(Historians),1984
pp.250-2

Over to the Bell-bottomed Brigade.

Col.

[COL BRUGGY]

Tom,

The full Times notice reads :-

DEATHS -MISSING.

JONES-BATEMAN - Reported missing from anti-submarine patrol, Lieut, LLEWELLYN C. JONES-BATEMAN, Fleet Air Arm, most beloved husband of Jean and dearly beloved elder son of the Rev.C and Mrs Jones-Bateman, 10 Talbot Hill Road, Bournemouth.

Col.

[dennis_burke]

A Cecil Jones Bateman and a Sibyl R B Corrie married in the Poole district in Q3 1915.

She must be Sybil Rita B Corrie Born 1886 in Surrey District.

Might be his father mentioned here:
http://www.toddington-gloucestershire-village-history.co.uk/memories.htm

[thorne83]

Fantastic! Well done all. It appears his father was Cecil who married a Miss Sybil Corrie in 1915 in Poole, Dorset. Still can't find Llewelyn's birth though! He appears to have had a sister Joan E M J Bateman, born 1919 in Poole, mothers maiden name Corrie.

It's proving a bit harder to find out when and where he was born than i first thought!

Cheers for the great help gents. I'm still open to further help if its on offer though!

Tom

[thorne83]

Looks like we were both looking them up at the same time Dennis!

[Errol Martyn]

Tom,

He was posted in to 80 Sqn 8 Mar 37, according to RAF AFL July 1937 - still there in the Mar 1938 edition (correct to 15 Feb 38).

Errol