430731 - Unaccounted airmen - 31-7-1943

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Died on active service:
Lac Sidney H. BRETTEN (Flight CC 292: BRETTON) - 1262315 - age 44;
AC1 Maxwell C. ELSDEN - 1230977;
Sgt Henry J.R. FISHER - 1330942;
LAC Harry FULLER - 1454304, and
AC1 Roy HORNE - 1715948.

B - Not found in Flight Global:
W/O Lewis EDMUNDS - 621577 - DFM.

C - Proposed aircraft losses in case W/O W/O Edmunds might have been killed in a flying accident:
Beaufighter I - T4782 - 2 (C)OTU - crashed on take-off Catfoss, Yorkshire.
Master I - T8450 - 5 (P)AFU - crashed on landing Chetwynd.
Tiger Moth II - T7869 - GPEU - flew into ground 3 miles NE of Devizes, Wiltshire.
Master II - DL341 - 5 (P)AFU - crashed on overshoot at night Ternhill, Shropshire.
Oxford I - DF501 - 1 BAS - crashed on take-off Kelmscott.
Anson I - LT448 - 2 (O)AFU - crashed in forced landing at night Wood Cottage, Ellingham, 5 miles W of Brunton.

D - Also looking for info on cause of death of:
F/Sgt Russ O. HUTCHISON - RAAF 408209, buried Bangladesh, Maynamati War Cem.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[COL BRUGGY]

Henk,

AUS408209 F/Sgt Russ Orlando HUTCHISON RAAF (Pilot, of No.31 Sqn. RAF), died of illness (Malaria), in No.92 I.G.H., Comilla on 31-7-1943. Buried 1-9-1943, Mynamati War Cemetery, Comilla, Bengal, India. Grave 3. B. 3.

Col.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Henk

Lac Sidney H. BRETTEN (Flight CC 292: BRETTON) - 1262315 - Edmonton, London
AC1 Maxwell C. ELSDEN - 1230977 - Canterbury, Kent
Sgt Henry J.R. FISHER - 1330942 - Macclesfield, Cheshire
LAC Harry FULLER - 1454304 - Leicester
AC1 Roy HORNE - 1715948 - Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire
W/O Lewis EDMUNDS - 621577 - DFM - Sleaford

Malcolm

[davew]

Henk,

Edmunds registered at Sleaford, Lincs, was he being carried in Blenheim L4933 at Harlaxton? Warner reports two injured.

regards

DaveW

[COL BRUGGY]

Henk,

Service number of Lewis EDMUNDS, 621557, not 621577.

Col.

[Henk Welting]

Thanks friends for your help.
Re EDMUNDS: No idea whether he was on Blenheim L4933. Warner in his 2nd Edition: 12 PAFU Mk.I - one engine caught fire in air, second lost power on approach to Harlaxton, crashlanded, DBF. Sgt S. REAH and crewman injured.
Regards,
Henk.

[wwrsimon]

EDMUNDS, Lewis DFM - died of polio after being admitted to hospital. His son has written a biography on the Wartime Memories Project website:

http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/ww2/view.php?uid=207592

Regards

Simon

[wwrsimon]

Hello

Lac Sidney Harold BRETTEN - 1262315 - a family tree on ancestry.co.uk has a copy of his death certificate, which states that he died at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, aged 43, due to myocardial degeneration and chronic bronchitis.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to Winifred Ellen Knapp 2029508, she was killed, along with her newly wed husband, Gunner Ronald Knapp 1790563, attached to 570 Coast Artillery Regiment, RA, by a train as they walked along the line at Horsted Keynes on the way home from their wedding reception

[jonheyworth]

Winifred Ellen Knapp 2029508 attached to 953 Squadron

[markpeelgb]

1230977 Aircraftman 1st Class Maxwell Charles ELSDEN

The Saffron Walden Weekly News of 6 August 1943 reported that AC1 Elsden, who had played football for Cambridge Town before the war, died of pneumonia in the Canterbury Hospital on 31 July 1943.

[jonheyworth]

Henry John Russel Fisher 1330942 , attached to RAF Wilmslow, died in Parkside EMS hospital, Macclesfield of heart faliure