420620 - Unaccounted airmen - 20-6-1942

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Died on active service:
LAC William J. BLEEKS - 1035372 (from N.Ireland), and
AC1 Stanley W. SPURLING - 1245395 - age 37.

B - Not found in Flight archives:
LAC Robert G. GLOYNE - 1388404.

C - Proposed aircraft loss:
Master I - N8051 - 5 FTS - crashed in forced landing Stoney Stretton, Shropshire.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Henk

Bleeks and Spurling - could not find in Eng/Wales so possibly Scotland/N Ireland

Gloyne - Manchester

Malcolm

[dennis_burke]

A 24 yr old William James Bleeks is registered in Kirkwall district of Orkney during 1942.

There is a 35 yr old Stanley William Spurling registered in St Clement district of Dundee City. CWGC has him aged 37.

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dennis & Malcolm. Files amended.
Regards,
Henk.

[dennis_burke]

Found LAC R G Gloyne DOAS Nov 5th Magazine

[wwrsimon]

Hello

LAC William J. BLEEKS - 1035372 - the Statutory Death Register on the Scotland's People website records that he died at 10.30 p.m. at the Military Hosital, Kirkwall, the result of an extra dural haemorrhage and cerebral compression, which he suffered as the result of a motor accident.

AC1 Stanley W. SPURLING - 1245395 - the Dundee Courier of June 22nd 1942 reported the following:

AIRMAN DIES AFTER CYCLING ACCIDENT
Aircraftman Stanley Spurling, who was about 35 and belonged to King's Lynn, died in Dundee Royal Infirmary on saturday night. While riding a bicycle in Old Glamas Road he fell and sustained head injuries.

Regards

Simon

[RecklessRat]

Not listed above but in the database as 'unaccounted' for this date:-

353214 W/O Alfred Henry SCRUTTON RAF
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/...hp?qnum=109144
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/fi...-alfred-henry/

Alfred Henry Scrutton
'Soldier'
Died at Oribi Military Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, aged 41, of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

From the Form of Information of a Death on FamilySearch:-
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61...KDT?cc=2721608