421002 - Unaccounted airmen - 2-10-1942

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Killed on active service:
Sgt (Pilot) William H. GULL - 658055.

B - Died on active service:
AC2 Gordon W. TEW - 1738031.

C - Not found in Flight archives:
F/Lt Arthur COPESTICK - 113211.

D - Also looking for unit and possible cause of death of:
Sgt Robert C. CARRINGTON - 1270267, commemorated on Panel 79 of the Runnymede Memorial.

E - Proposed aircraft losses:
Hurricane I - Z7157 - 56 OTU - crashed on take-off at night 1 mile W of Kinnell.
Hotspur II Glider - BT688 - 3 GTS - crashed on approach Stoke Orchard.
Hotspur II Glider - HH146 - 4 GTS - dived into ground Kidlington.
Hotspur II Glider - HH227 - 4 GTS - crashed on apprach Kidlington.
Whitley V - AD693 - 3 (C)OTU - flew into ground 1 mile E of Cranwell.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Copestick,37. registered at E Dereham, Norfolk. Closest a/f Swanton Morley
Gull and Tew didn't come up and I note both were taken home for burial in England.I looked in the 1st Qtr of 1943 as well
Regards
Dick

[dennis_burke]

Robert C Cardington comes up as "3 RDFS" on the GRO list.

Googling suggests, 3 Radio Direction Finding School, RAF Prestwick

There is a William H Gull age 23 in the Guthrie district of Angushire, Scotland.

Gordon W Tew age 19 turns up under Lerwick District, Shetland.

[Ross_McNeill]

Hi Henk,

Carrington lost on Botha L6201.

Regards
Ross

[Martyn A Critchlow]

Following Dennis's work, GULL looks a likely candidate for Z7157.
A crash site of 1 mile W of Kinnell would be about 1 mile E of Guthrie.
This would be about 15 miles NE of RAF Tealing, where 56 OTU were based at the time.

Martyn

[Dick]

The ages that Dennis has found for Gull and Tew match those on CWGC
Dick

[Henk Welting]

Thanks friends for all your helpful info.
Regards and enjoy the oncoming weekend,
Henk.

[alclark]

Gull was recorded for the 1st October 1942, must have been very close to midnight.

October 1st 1942, “Flying accident to Hurricane Z7157, aircraft dived into ground when pilot 658080 Sgt Gull was engaged in night flying at Kinnell, pilot was killed.”

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Al for additional info on GULL.

Henk.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

AC2 Gordon W. TEW - 1738031 - the Statutory Deaths Register on the Scotland's People website records that he died at 6.55 p.m. at the Isolation Hospital, Lerwick, due to typhoid fever and lobar pneumonia.

Reagrds

Simon