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    Default Unaccounted airmen - 5-2-1942

    What were the places of death registration for:

    A - Not found Flight archives:
    Cpl Geoffrey E. HANSFORD - 550407.

    B - Died on active service:
    AC2 Herbert HUGHES - 1422214.

    C - Proposed aircraft losses for this day:
    Anson I - K6228 - 3 AOS - crashed in forced landing Llanymynech, Llandysilio, Montgomery.
    Lysander III - T1611 - 54 OTU - crashed in forced landing Healaugh, Yorkshire (?).
    Tiger Moth II - N9208 - 29 EFTS - crashed in forced landing Rockley, Marlborough, Wiltshire.
    Leopard Moth - AV975 - 7 AACU - crashed in forced landing Frith Barracks, Deepcut, Frimley, Surrey.

    Regards and thanks for your help.
    Henk.

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    Hi Henk
    Hughes,29,registered at Kings Lynn, Norfolk,
    Hansford didn't come up on the register and I didn't find him on CWGC
    Regards
    Dick

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    Hi Henk,

    Hughes listed in BCL9RoH/113.

    1422214 AC2 HUGHES Herbert 5-02-42 West Raynham.

    and, CWGC:

    550407 Cpl. Geoffrey Edward HANSORD.
    Buried Thetford Cemetery Plot E. Row L. Grave 400.

    Col.
    Last edited by COL BRUGGY; 5th April 2009 at 02:27. Reason: correction

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    The Lysander was a none fatal accident, the following came from the ORB.

    February 5th 1942, “There were three flying accident during the day. No.563762, W/O W.H. Edmond, and instructor, swung off the runway on landing and damaged the aircraft, an Oxford, in hard snow; P/O Oatley, flying a Blenheim aircraft, landed on the aerodrome with undercarriage up after it had failed to lock, and No.1167419 Sgt H. Wallis crashed landed in a Lysander near Tadcaster after engine failure. All these aircraft were considerably damaged,
    but in no case was the pilot injured.”
    Alan Clark

    Peak District Air Accident Research

    [url]http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/[/url]

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    Hi Henk
    Another look with Col's spelling for Hansord brought him up on CWGC but not on the register. His family connections incl his wife are in Staines, Middlesex,the area S of Heathrow, so he wasn't taken home for burial, but he still doesn't come up on the register.
    Regards
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    Thanks all for your help.
    Regards,
    Henk.

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    DIED OF WOUNDS OR INJURIES RECEIVED ON ACTIVE SERVICE.—Cpl. G. E. Hansord.

    his name seems to appaer with matching age in Buchanan district of Stirling, Scotland. I see from Google there is/was a Military hospital there.

    http://hsewsf.sedsh.gov.uk/hslive/hsstart?P_HBNUM=4045

    Notes:
    During WWII, when Buchanan Castle was requisitioned for use as a military hospital, a large number of ancillary buildings and wards were built around the house itself. Following the closure of the hospital, the majority of these buildings were sold and converted into dwelling houses.
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