400819 - Unaccounted airmen - 19-8-1940

[Henk Welting]

On we go with (ground)casualties Battle of Britain:
Several locations were attacked by the Luftwaffe; servicemen killed on Honington (4 dead), Little Rissington (1 dead) and Ablington (1 dead).

Looking for places of death registration of following airmen:

A - Not listed Flight archives:
AC2 William DOKE - 1102926
AC2 William C.S. FORD - 910334 - 64 Sqn (Kenley, Surrey); may have been wounded air raid on Kenley 18-8-1940
LAC John H. PARISH - 917250
AC2 Cyril P. WILLIAMS - 1171590 - HQs 3 Grp; may have been killed air raid Honington, Suffolk.
LAC Stanley WORRALL - 520243

B - Died of wounds or injuries received on active service:
AC2 George W.L. DUDLEY - 1182877 - 9 Sqn (Honington)
AC2 Frank A.C. HOLDAWAY - 1173749 - 9 Sqn (Honington)
LAC William J. TANNER - 819076 - 615 Sqn (Kenley, Surrey); may have been wounded air raid on Kenley 18-8-1940

C - Killed on active service:
AC2 Arfon JONES - 949725
AC2 Richard C. JONES - 1171578
AC2 Frederick L. LARKIN - 906240 - 9 Sqn (Honington)

D - LAC (Pilot) Ronald P. WARNER - 905251 - killed on active service, buried Cranwell (St.Andrew) Churchyard, Lincolnshire (UK1931).

Proposed aircraft losses for this day:
Harvard I - P5788 - 6 FTS - flew into ground Northleach Lane, Hazleton, Gloucestershire (for this aircraft already have as a casualty: Sgt [Pilot] John S. BELL - 754390)
Oxford II - P8993 - RAFC - crashed on take-off at night Barkston LG.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Amrit]

EDIT - sorry repeated info

[Dick]

Hi Henk
I found a William Doke ,26, registered at Liverpool N. I found a William S C Ford,20, at Surrey S E (?Kenley), Cyril P Williams,26, at Bury St Edmunds( close to Honnington) and Stanley Worrell,22,at Worthing, Frank A C Holdaway,25,at Bury St Edmunds,and William J Tanner,28, at Croydon. You have George W L Dudley but I could only find a William G L Dudley,20, registered at Bury St Edmunds.
Regards
Dick

[paulmcmillan]

Dick

Did you find LAC (Pilot) Ronald P. WARNER on the death registers?
Thnaks

Paul

[Dick]

Hi Again
There is a Richard G Jones,25, registered at Bury St Edmunds as is Frederick L Larkin,23.
Ronald P Warner,25, is registered at Grantham which would make him a possibility for the Oxford at Barkston
Regards
Dick

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dick for this valuable info.
Don't know which initials for DUDLEY - 1182877 are correct. CWGC has - like in my files - George William Leslie DUDLEY, buried Chelmarsh (St.Peter) Churchyard.
Regards,
Henk.

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dick for this valuable info.
Don't know which initials for DUDLEY - 1182877 are correct. CWGC has - like in my files - George William Leslie DUDLEY, buried Chelmarsh (St.Peter) Churchyard.
Regards,
Henk.

[paulmcmillan]

Hi Again
There is a Richard G Jones,25, registered at Bury St Edmunds as is Frederick L Larkin,23.
Ronald P Warner,25, is registered at Grantham which would make him a possibility for the Oxford at Barkston
Regards
Dick

Dick

Thanks - I agree looks like the Oxford!

[paulmcmillan]

Thanks Dick for this valuable info.
Don't know which initials for DUDLEY - 1182877 are correct. CWGC has - like in my files - George William Leslie DUDLEY, buried Chelmarsh (St.Peter) Churchyard.
Regards,
Henk.

Flight Global has GWL Dudley

[Henk Welting]

Any idea about death registration AC2 Arfon JONES - 949725 and LAC John H. PARISH - 917250 ?
Regards,
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Possibly from your A list, I have found a John E Parish, 27, registered at Bury St Edmunds,and from the C list, Arfon Jones,19,registered at Cirencester.
Regards
Dick

[brian]

Hi Henk

According to Michael Bowyer's book AIR RAID, four men were killed during a raid on RAF Coltishall at 1415 on 19 August, and a further 25 injured. He goes on to say that RAF Honington was raided at 1615 by a single He111, when the barracks square was hit, but no mention of casualties. It would seem that he has the casualties noted at the wrong station.

Cheers
Brian

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dick and Brian for this additional info.

Regards,
Henk.

[Martyn A Critchlow]

AC2 William DOKE - 1102926
Bored with his duties William Doke, aged 26, aircraftman, while on week-end leave gassed himself his home in Brookbridge Road, Tuebrook, Liverpool, after saying “Good-bye to his wife and parents. At the inquest Liverpool, to-day, a verdict of Suicide ...

Friday 23 August 1940, Liverpool Echo, Merseyside, England

Martyn

[Martyn A Critchlow]

Both L.A/C. J E Parish, 917250 and A/C.2 C. P. Williams, 117159; listed as KOAS in Casualty Communique 45 in Flight, September 19, 1940.

In same listing is LA/C. S. Worral, 530243 shown as ‘Died of wounds on injuries received on active service’.

Martyn

[CZ_RAF]

Hi all,

I would like to re-open this Henk's old thread regarding losses caused by German air raid on Honington.
According to a diary of 311 Sq based at Honington at the time "the exact number of casualties is not known, we have heard something between 5 and 10". With help of this thread I was able to find out following six casualties:

Aircraftman 2nd Class
DUDLEY, GEORGE WILLIAM LESLIE
Service Number 1182877
Died 19/08/1940
Aged 20
9 Sqdn.

Aircraftman 2nd Class
LARKIN, FREDERICK LEONARD
Service Number 906240
Died 19/08/1940
Aged 23
9 Sqdn.

Aircraftman 2nd Class
HOLDAWAY, FRANK ALAN CRAWFORD
Service Number 1173749
Died 19/08/1940
Aged 25
9 Sqdn.

Aircraftman 2nd Class
WILLIAMS, CYRIL PEARSON
Service Number 1171590
Died 19/08/1940
Aged 26

Aircraftman 2nd Class
JONES, RICHARD GLYNNE
Service Number 1171578
Died 19/08/1940
Aged 25

Leading Aircraftman
PARISH, JOHN EDWARD
Service Number 917250
Died 19/08/1940
Aged 27

Anyone has any fresh information on this topic and can confirm/update this list please?

TIA

Pavel

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Pavel

I can't confirm them but I have them all as possibles for this raid. All six are registered in Bury St Edmunds.

Malcolm

[CZ_RAF]

Hi Malcolm, thank you for your reply.
Do you have by chance any information about unit of:

LAC John H. PARISH - 917250
AC2 Richard G. JONES - 1171578

?

TIA

Pavel

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Pavel

Together with Williams they were on the staff at Honington

Malcolm

[CZ_RAF]

Many thanks Malcom, that was my guess!

Pavel

[jonheyworth]

John Stanley Wiltshire 633996 died when he hit a stationary lorry whilst riding his motorcycle in the blackout at Thrussington crossroads

[jonheyworth]

Stanley Worall 530243 , attached to RAF Ford, was fatally injured in an air raid

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

400819 - Unaccounted Airmen - 19-08-1940

From Henk's List -

UK
DOKE, William - AC2c - 1102926 - RAFVR.
Liverpool (West Derby) Cemetery, Lancashire.
Cause of death reportedly Suicide.

DUDLEY, George William Leslie-AC2c - 1182877 - RAFVR - 9 Sqn.
Chelmarsh ( St.Peter) Churchyard, Shropshire.
HOLDAWAY, Frank Alan Crawford - AC2c - 1173749 - RAFVR - 9 Sqn.
Honington (All Saints) Churchyard, Suffolk.
The two airmen named above died of injuries received during an Air Raid on RAF Honington.

PARISH,John Edward- Lac - 917250 - RAFVR.
Honington (All Saints) Churchyard, Suffolk.
WILLIAMS, Cyril Pearson - AC2c - 1171590 - RAFVR.
Plymouth (Ford Park)Cemetery, Devon.
JONES, Richard Glynne-AC2c - 1171578 - RAFVR.
Honington (All Saints) Churchyard, Suffolk.
LARKIN, Frederick Leonard - AC2c - 906240 - RAFVR - 9 Sqn.
Willesden New Cemetery, Middlesex.
WILLIAMSON, Edward - Lac - 746004 - RAFVR.
Halton (St. Michael) Churchyard, Buckinghamshire.
The five airman named above were Killed in an Air Raid on RAF Honington.

FORD, William Charles Stanley - AC2c - 910334 - RAFVR - 64 Sqn.
Morden Cemetery, Surrey.
Cause of death, died of injuries received during an Air Raid on RAF Kenley.
TANNER, William John - Lac - 819076 - RAF (AAF) - 615 Sqn.
Coulsdon (St. John) Churchyard, Surrey.
Killed in an Air Raid on RAF Kenley.

JONES, Arfon - AC2c - 949725 - RAFVR.
Dylais Higher(Brynbedd) Cemetery, Glamorganshire.
Killed in an Air Raid on RAF Bibury.

WORRALL, Stanley - Lac - 530243 - RAF.
Coventry (London Road) Cemetery, Warwickshire.
Fatally injured in an Air Raid on RAF Ford.

WILTSHIRE, John Stanley - AC1c - 633969 - RAF - 44 Sqn.
Chilvers Coton (All Saints) Churchyard, Warwickshire.
Killed in a motor-cycle collision with a Lorry.

From CWGC -

FRANCE
WHITING, William George Frederick - Sgt - 581252 - RAF.
WILKINSON, William Gaston Jules - Sgt - 546143 - RAF.
These two airmen rest at Bayeux War Cemetery, Calvados, France.
They were crew of Blenheim IV - R2795 - 59 Sqn.

SINGAPORE
SHORT,Victor George - Cpl - 566093 - RAF - 36 Sqn.
Singapore Memorial, Singapore.
This airman drowned when the pram he was in overturned while under tow of a motor launch.

UK
BELL, John Studholme - Sgt - 754390 - RAFVR.
Wigton Cemetery, Cumberland.
Harvard - P5788 - 6 FTS.

STUDD, John Alnod Peter - P/O - 41491 - RAF.
Touchen End(Holy Trinity) Churchyard, Berkshire.
Spitfire Ia - N3182 - 66 Sqn.

BISHOP, John - Sgt - 754664 - RAFVR.
BRITNOR, Stanley - Sgt - 754172 - RAFVR.
JACKSON, John Angus - Sgt - 651960 - RAF.
KING, William Euerby - P/O - 81356 - RAFVR.
These four airmen are at rest at Cardington (St. Mary) Church Cemetery, Bedfordshire.
They were crew of Hampton I - P1305 - 14 OTU.

CAMERON, Frederick John Alastair - P/O - 79525 - RAFVR.
Chilbolton (St. Mary the Less) Churchyard, Hampshire.
HODGSON, Joseph Asquith - Lac - 944900 - RAFVR.
Gosforth(St.Nicholas) Churchyard, Northumberland.
HOWARD, Raymond Thomas- Lac - 902551 - RAFVR.
Bushey(St. James) Churchyard, Herefordshire.
HOWARD, William Henry - Lac - 905610 - RAFVR.
Brighton (The Downs) Cemetery, Sussex.
The above four airman were crew of Anson I - N5132 - 5 AONS.

DIGBY-WORSLEY, Maxwell Paul - Sgt - 649007 - RAF.
ROUND,James Henry - Sgt - 740667 - RAFVR.
WANT, William Hudson - Sgt - 745927 - RAFVR.
These three airmen were crew of Blenheim IV - L9457 - 248 Sqn.

DOBB, Kenneth Herbert - Sgt - 745629 - RAFVR.
PILLANS, Alexander Morrison - Sgt - 751149 - RAFVR.
These two airmen were crew of Blenheim IV - R3892 - 114 Sqn.

The five airmen named above are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey.

WARNER, Ronald Percy - Lac - 905251 - RAFVR.
Cranwell (St.Andrew) Churchyard, Lincolnshire.
Oxford II - P8993 - RAF Cranwell FTS.

DAVIES, Iorwerth Lewis - Air Fitter E) - FX.75093 HMS Peregrine - RN.
Caerwys ( St.Michael) Churchyard, Flintshire.
Died of injuries received on the 18th during the Air Raid.


BACHAVER, Karl - GAF.
Little Hampton Cemetery, Sussex.

HAAK, Wilhelm - GAF.
MOSER, Johann - GAF.
PULVER, Gerhard - GAF.
WILD, Josef - GAF.
These four German airmen rest at Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery, Staffordshire.

Cause of death of these five German Airmen ?

Alex

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Alex

Doke - He was home on leave from RAF Watton when he gassed himself because he was 'bored with the service and his duties'.

Malcolm

[cozzy711]

Fw Johann MOSER, Pilot
Uffz Karl BACHAUER, Radio Operator
Fw Wilhelm HAAK, F/Eng
Crew of Ju 88A-1 ‘9K + FR’ Shot down by Spitfires of 602 Squadron over the English Channel whilst on a raid to Little Rissington.


Uffz Gerhard PULVER, Gunner
Crew of He 111P ‘G1 + HP’ Shot down by Hurricanes of 1 and 615 Squadron. Force landed at Bramber, Sussex on 16th August 1940. Died of wounds 19th August 1940.


Fw Josef WILD, F/Eng
Crew of He 111H-2 ‘A1 + FS’ Shot down by Hurricanes of 56 Squadron, crashed at Small Gains farm, Foulness Island on the 18th August 1940. Died of wounds 19th August 1940.

[paulmcmillan]

LA/C. Stanley Worrall #530243


Killed Attack on RNAS Ford, 18th August 1940

http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=5864.0

[jonheyworth]

Edward Williamson 746004 , attached to 10 OTU , died at 05:15 Hours in RAF Hospital Halton , of extensive petrol burns