430412 - Unaccounted airwomen and airmen - 12-4-1943

[Henk Welting]

Ross,
I've a total of eight fatal casualties on Dominie X7444 so one of them may have been with Sgt WRIGHT on the Proctor DX223:
Sgt (Pilot) Arthur K. SMITH - 1179487;
Cpl (WOp) Robert MOSS - 1119561;
AC2 (WOp) Ctril T. CLINNICK - 1324287;
AC2 John P. EXTEN - 1585959;
AC1 (WOp) Ronald PERRY - 1549208;
AC2 (WOp) William POTTS - 1091889;
AC2 (WOp) Roy A. SHERWIN - 1577312, and
AC2 (WOp) Graham E. STEVENSON - 1600747.
Regards,
Henk.

[Ross_McNeill]

Right got to LB240

F1180 gives 4 fatalities (looks like one died later)

Pilot F/O P Grove, 120779 (according to CWGC he died the following day)
P/O K Wade, 132725, +

So two others to be added and these look like Newman and Lane.

Regards
Ross

[wwrsimon]

Hello

P/O (Nav u/t) Robert L. CORRIE - 138132 and
Sgt (Pilot) Ivan JUDD - 1231051 - their respective Graves Registration Report Forms confirm their unit as 7 E.F.T.S., which links them to Tiger Moth II N9214.

LACW Emily HAYBURN - 2087023 - the Liverpool Echo of April 14th 1943 carried the following announcement:

HAYBURN - April 12, at Whitchurch (E.) Hospital, EMILY (L.A.C.W.), beloved niece of M. Pearson and S. Hayburn. Funeral at Cardiff.

LACW Kathleen MOLLAGHAN - 2059892 - her entry on www.findagrave.com has the following:

Aged 23.
Daughter of John and Mary Mollaghan, of Drumlish.
She was born in Co. Longford and her birth was registered as Catherine Mollaghan.
She was a telephone operator in the balloon squadron, which was deployed in the defence of Glasgow.
She was admitted to hospital at West Kirby on 25 February 1943, and died on 12 April 1943.
She was buried in Drumlish Cemetery, Drumlish, Co. Longford.

As Dennis mentioned in post #6, there is a Kathleen Molloghan on the England & Wales Civil Deaths Register, aged 22, registered in the Wirral, June 1943.

Cpl Arthur P. RICE - 573515 - the Dunfries and Galloway Standard of April 17th 1943 carried the following announcement:

RICE - On 12th April, 1943, at Hamgreen Hospital, Bristol, Corporal Arthur Patrick Rice, R.A.F., dearly beloved second son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rice, 6 Quality Street, North Berwick.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

David Thomas Jones 1120283 was admitted to the Cardiganshire general hospital, Aberystwyth, seriously ill on 10th November 1943. Diagnosed with a haematuria and pulmonary tuberculosis in both lungs. Terminally ill, he was discharged from the RAF on 29th January 1943

[jonheyworth]

Sidney Joseph Tipler 1210600 , attached to Number 5 Wing of Number 2 SOTT, taken dangerously ill on 3 April and admitted to RAF Hospital, Cosford, where he died of gross toxameia and shock caused by an acute intestinal strangulation

[jonheyworth]

Emily Hayburn 2087023 , an ACH/GD attachex to RAF Cardiff, was admitted to the Whitchurch EMS hospital on 7 April where she died at 00:15 hours of leukaemia

[jonheyworth]

Kathleen Mollaghan 2059892 , a telephone operator, was admitted to RAF Hospital, West Kirkby on 25 February where she died of ulcerative colitis

[Jagan]

Thomas Edward Jones, a medically discharged Air Force pensioner at the time of his death, died at 37 Dunraven Street, Treherbert , of pulmonary tuberculosis

Which Thomas Edward Jones is this? I cant find an appropriate 'Pensioner' aged airman with this name.. what was his date of death?

PS..

All updates done to this point

122,438 casualty records in this database. 116,874 records (95.46%) are "Accounted for". 5,564 are still unaccounted.

565 records away from what was considered impossible a few years ago???

[jonheyworth]

Which Thomas Edward Jones is this? I cant find an appropriate 'Pensioner' aged airman with this name.. what was his date of death?

PS..

All updates done to this point

122,438 casualty records in this database. 116,874 records (95.46%) are "Accounted for". 5,564 are still unaccounted.

Thomas Edward Jones 529752 , pensioner merely means in receipt of a pension Jagan, in this case a disability discharge one. Not age relate

Jon