421024 - Unaccounted airmen - 24-10-1942

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AC2 John C. PRINCE - 1641385 - the Newcastle Evening Chronicle of October 27th 1942:

Roll of Honour
PRINCE. Killed by enemy action, Oct., 1942, John Charlton, beloved husband of Jennie (nee Coates), 4, King Edward Road, North Shields, elder son of Alice and the late John Charlton Prince. Interment later.

Regards

Simon

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A little more on the following two casualties from Spilsby:

F/Sgt Leonard J. BAILEY - 518543 - the Dover Express of November 6th 1942 reported the following:

F/SGT. L. J. BAILEY
The death occurred on october 24th, somewhere on the East Coast, through enemy action, of Leonard John (Billy) Bailey, Flight-Sergt., R.A.F.

AC2 Albert R. BULLEN - 1628933 - the Kent & Sussex Courier of October 30th 1942 reported:

PTE. A. R. BULLEN KILLED
Pte. Albert Reginald Bullen, whose parents live at 52, Yew Tree Road, was killed in a recent air raid on an East cCoast locality.

Also:

LAC Eric GREEN - 1065158 - the Hull Daily Mail of November 10th 1942 reported:

AIRMAN FINED £20
Wing Commander Kenneth Holden, R.A.F., was fined £20 and costs and his driving licence endorsed by the magistrates at a special court held at the Sessions House, Beverley, on Saturday, on a charge of dangerous driving.
Supt. C. Cooke, who prosecuted, said the case arose out of an accident which occurred on the Beverley-Leconfield road at 10.30 p.m. on Saturday, October 24, when an airman, L.A.C. Eric Green, aged 28, was knocked down and fatally injured by a car driven by the defendant.

Regards

Simon