430214 - Unaccounted airwoman and airmen - 14-2-1943

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Died on active service:
Cpl (WAAF) Kathleen M. DICKSON - 428865.

B - Killed on active service:
LAC Eric SMITH - 993113 - 406 Sqn (Middle Wallop, Hampshire), and
F/O (Pilot) Andrew V.S. WILSON - 119158.

C - Not found in Flight archives:
S/Ldr Herbert E. OSMOND - 84174, and
AC1 Vernon L. PRIEST - 1300482.

D - Proposed aircraft losses:
Hurricane I - P2799 - 56 OTU - crashed in forced landing East Flisk, 8 miles N of Cupar, Fifeshire.
Lysander III - V9675 - 5 GTS - crashed on landing 1 mile W of Shobdon.
Mustang I - AG400 - 41 OTU - flew into high ground Jubilee Tower, Moel Farnau, Cilcain, Denbighshire.
Wellington III - HF749 - 1 OADU - crashed on approach Portreath.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[AlanW]

Henk,
Dickson.......Gloucester R.
Smith....Winchester.
Priest....Birmingham.
Wilson....Ruthin, Clwyd.

Have you got H.E.Osmond right, as no trace, even in CWGC. Got him!! H.E. Ormond....Chichester.

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Alan; F/O WILSON may have been on the Mustang as his registration was in Ruthin what is in Denbighshire.
Regards,
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Ruthin was in Denbighshire up to 1974 when the Welsh Counties were reshaped and given names that better reflected the Welsh language.Denbighshire became incorporated in the modern county of Clwyd.
Regards
Dick

[alclark]

Just for confirmation, Wilson was with No.41 OTU when he was killed, February 14th 1943, “P/O Wilson (68 Course) killed in a flying accident.”

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Al & Dick for additional info.
Regards,
Henk.

[dennis_burke]

ORmond is a DOAS, can;t find Priest.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

S/Ldr Herbert E. ORMOND - 84174 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at the Royal West Sussex Hospital, Chichester. A biography on ancestry.co.uk records that he was Acting Chief Controller at Tangmere.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Kathleen M Dickerson died of tb and other causes,see facebook plugin comment for full details

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to Kathleen Mary Dickson, 428865, a nursing orderly attached to Number 44 group, her initial operation in RAF hospital Innsworth was for a pelvic infection