420831 - Unaccounted airmen - 31-8-1942

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Died on active service:
AC2 Colin F. MOLE - 1626905.

B - Not found in Flight archives:
AC1 Alfred GOLDFARB - 1457493 - age 20.

C - Killed on active service:
Sgt (Pilot) William WHALLEY - 657371.

D - Also looking for the unit and possible cause of death of:
LAC Michael J. SUMMERS - 1253702, whose name is commemorated on Panel 290 of the Runnymede Memorial. (High panel number an grave presumably lost ??).

E - Proposed aircraft losses:
Blenheim IV - N3585 - 51 OTU - flew into ground at night near Turvey, Bedfordshire.
Hector I - K8154 - GPEU - overshot landing Shrewton.
Lysander III - V9798 - 1488 Flt - flew into ground Martlesham Heath (already as a casualty on this a/c: F/Sgt [Pilot] A.G.A. ARNOT - RAAF 402840).
Oxford I - P9028 - 7 FIS - flew into ground near Everleigh, Wiltshire.
Spitfire IIA - P8583 - CGS - collided with Hampden P2067 and crashed Holmes Farm, Cloot Drove, Crowland, Lincolnshire.
Wellington IC - R1533 - 7 (C)OTU - crashed on landing Limavady.
Wellington IC - R1232 - 1443 Flt - crashed on overshoot Moreton-in-Marsh.
Whitley V - BD667 - HGCU - crashed on take-off Brize Norton.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[COL BRUGGY]

Henk,

Re: Lysander IIIA - V9798 - 1488 Flt. - AUS402840 F/Sgt (Pilot) Arthur Gordon Herbert ARNOT RAAF.

1253702 LAC Michael John SUMMERS RAFVR, also killed in this accident.

See Item Notes Arnot's A705, NAA A705 163/88/137 (NAA have filed Arnot's A705 under an incorrect service number ie 402820).

Arnot buried Maldon Cemetery, Row 61. Grave 95!

Col.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Mole,39, registered at Ely, Cambridgeshire.?Raf Hospital
Whalley,23, registered at Bedford, Bedfordshire and recorded in Warner's Blenheim as killed on N3585.No other names given so he may have been solo
Goldfarb didn't come on the register but he was from London and was taken home for burial. He was Jewish but it still ought to have come up on a register
Regards
Dick

[dennis_burke]

AC2 A Goldfarb is listed DOAS in Feb 25th Flight magazine

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dennis, Dick & Col for this excellent and much appreciated help.
Regards,
Henk.

[COL BRUGGY]

Henk,

The Times November 25, 1942. p.7.

Died of Wounds or Injuries received on Active Sevice:

Summers, L/A/C. M.J.

Surely, his death was registered somewhere.

Col.

[dennis_burke]

A G H Arnot is registered in Malden district, Essex 4 a 669

and there is a 23 year old Michael J Summers registered in Chelmsford district, Essex Vol 4 a 590

Malden district was succeeded by Chelsford in 1972,

[COL BRUGGY]

Dennis,

Thanks for that.

Now, why is Summers commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial?

Any takers?

Col.

[dennis_burke]

Like Henk suggests, a lost grave perhaps, high panel number.

he is not on the RAF GRO register so it may be that his family buried him themselves and all contact with CWGC was lost.

there was a Michael J Summers born in Bristol district, Q1 1920, so maybe late 1919.

[Ross_McNeill]

Hi Henk,

Oxford I - P9028 - 7 FIS - flew into ground near Everleigh, Wiltshire.

Two pupil instructors, Sgt Turvey and Sgt Wilson, both received minor injuries.

Regards
Ross