420824 - Unaccounted airmen - 24-8-1942

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Died on active service:
LAC Herbert J. HODGSON - 1113108.

B - Killed on active service:
Sgt (Pilot) Trevor A. TATE - 1023722.

C - Proposed aircraft losses:
Spitfire IIB - P8527 - 53 OTU - dived into ground 1 mile SE of Pontypool Road, Glamorgan.
Tiger Moth II - T7115 - 4 EFTS - flew into ground Moors Farm, Crowle, Lincolnshire.
Tiger Moth II - DE348 - 652 Sqn - spun into ground Suffolk.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Hodgson,21, registered at Stoke(on Trent), Staffordshire
Tate,20 registered at Pontypool, Glamorgan. It night make him a candidate for Spitfire P8527
Regards
Dick

[Henk Welting]

As ever, thanks Dick.
Regards,
Henk.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

Sgt (Pilot) Trevor A. TATE - 1023722 - the Graves Registration Report Form confirms his unit as 53 O.T.U.

Regards

Simon

[RecklessRat]

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

915008 AC1 Joseph Fernley MITCHELL RAFVR
http://www.rafcommands.com/database/...php?qnum=94571
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/fi...oseph-fernley/

Joseph Fernley Mitchell
'Aircraftsman - Royal Air Force'
Died at Oribi Military Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, aged 25, of '(a) Bilaterial Pulmonary Tuberculosis (b) contr. sudden acute left sided spontaneous pneumothorax'

From the Form of Information of a Death on FamilySearch:-
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61...N-8?cc=2721608