420214 - Unaccounted airman - 14-2-1942 (Far East)

Hi Henk
Warner records no deaths on K7044,
Hazel Burton,20, registered at Carmarthen, N Wales
Wilding,20, registered at Fylde, Lancashire
Winter, 28, registered at Thanet, Kent
Horwood,22, Oliver,19, Sanders,23, Williams,28, and Wray,19, are all registered at Eton, Buckinghamshire, the right area for Horton and Dominie R5927,
Metcalfe,21, registered at Brentford, Middlesex, SW London
The nearest I could find for Porter was a registration, age 24, at Grantham, Lincolnshire and another aged 19 at Willesden, Middlesex. Neither fits in with the information that Roy has given that places him in the collision in Durham
I missed the Durham W registration supplied by Malcolm
Regards
Dick

Hi Henk & Others,

From; Bloody Shambles Vol.2.

Saturday-Monday, 14-16 February (1942)

Saturday, 14 February.

Similar fates had overtaken the crews of two of the 62 Squadron machines. The A6Ms apparently shot down the Hudsons flown by Plt Offs Richard Johnson and John Robinson (AE592) as they approached the target; both crews perished.

See:
Bloody Shambles Vol.2
Shores,C.,Cull,B. & Y.Izawa
London:Grub Street,1993.
p.91.

No.62 Sqn. Casualties 14-2-42 (per G'sSE).

759017 F/Sgt Ronald Frederick BARKER
968251 F/Sgt Gordon Charles Wager GUTERSOHN
966005 Sgt Colin William HARVEY
100543 F/O Richard Arthur Chaffen JOHNSON
955799 F/Sgt Geoffrey POOLE
751555 F/Sgt James ROBERTSON
89831 F/O John Stewart ROBINSON
745908 F/Sgt William TEMPLETON

All commemorated on the Singapore Memorial.

Difficult, other than pilots', to assign men to aircraft.

Col.

Thanks all for this bunch of valuable info.
Regards,
Henk.

Thanks Col. A/c Serial for ROBINSON AE592; is also serial listed for JOHNSON ? Hudsons lost in Malaya January 1942: AE530, AE551, AE592, AE604 and AE607.
Regards,
Henk.

Sgt. G S Metcalfe is in Flight dated Mar 26th 42. Printed as G. S. Metcalf, no final e.

He is in the KOAS group.

Thanks Dennis for confirmation METCALF(E).
Regards,
Henk.

Hi Henk,

Form 1180

Dominie R5827 has 7 killed 0 injured.

So all six at Eton plus pilot listed as

G E Ellis, Civilian.

Regards
Ross

Hi Henk,

F1180
Confirms Roy's info on Porter

Sgt (Pilot) George S. METCALFE
Killed No.116 Sqn Hurricane P3212

Regards
Ross

Thanks Ross for info on:
Anson R5927 (not R5827) and civil pilot G.E. ELLIS; will check CWGC for burial info.
Hurricane P3212 and Sgt G.S. METCALFE. How could I've missed this one. Crashed 61 Jeymer Drive, Greenford, Middlesex.
Regards,
Henk.

Typo.........for Anson read Dominie !!!