430819 - Unaccounted airmen - 19-8-1943

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration of:

A - Died on active service:
AC2 Edward H. STRIPP - 1610759.

B - Not found in Flight Magazine:
AC2 Charles S. DONNELLY - 853679, and
AC1 Alfred SIRDEFIELD - 1081540 - age 30.

C - Proposed aircraft losses:
Beaufighter I - T4653 - 9 (C)OTU - crashed on take-off Crossby.
Master I - T8659 - 7 (P)AFU - aircraft abandoned Priory Road, Westwood, Peterborough.
Oxford I - X6770 - RAFC - overshot landing Caistor RLG.
Proctor I - P6257 - 2 Radio School - undershot landing Townsend RLG, near Yatesbury.
Hamilcar I Glider - DR851 - AFEE - crashed on landing Sherburn-in-Elmet.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Henk

AC2 Edward H. STRIPP - registered in Flyde, Lancashire having died in hospital after being found unconcious the previous night, having apparantly fallen off his bicycle

AC2 Charles S. DONNELLY - 853679 - Liverpool North
AC1 Alfred SIRDEFIELD - 1081540 - Rowley Regis, Staffordshire

Malcolm

[Henk Welting]

As ever, thanks Malcolm.
Henk.

[Henk Welting]

Forgot one for this date; his name not found in Flight Magazine.............
Looking for place of death registration of Sgt (Pilot) Terrance C. ASHLEY - 1337699.
Regards,
Henk.

[alclark]

Death registered as Tadcaster, Yorkshire.

[Resmoroh]

Henk,
Terrance C Ashley D Reg Tadcaster, Yorkshire, Q3 1943 (Ref Vol 9c Page 754).
Rgds
Peter

[Litcham_Lad]

Henk,

Sgt TC Ashley

See Chorley Vol.8 p.60 at top of page

Pilot of Halifax R9497 - is this your man?

dg

[Resmoroh]

Henk (et al),
Re T8659
And just to provide some niff-naff and trivia, I was born in Priory Road, Westwood, Peterborough, in 1936.
I regret, however, that by Aug 1943 we had moved to a nearby location (Edwalton Avenue) and I have to admit that at the age of 7 my recollections of aircraft prangs in the neighbourhood are not all that they might be. This I apologise for!!
Rgds
Peter

[Henk Welting]

Thanks all for your worthwhile reactions.
Henk.

[jonheyworth]

Richard Stobbs 1544605 , died in Calcutta at Number 47 British general hospital of MT malaria

[jonheyworth]

Frederick Herbert Payne 1256663 , was admitted dangerously ill to RAF hospital Benghazi where he died the same day of poliomyelitis

[jonheyworth]

Rowland Rushforth 1013319 , attached to Number 206 MU , died at 21:15 Hours in Number 30 MFH of a strangulated small intestine

[jonheyworth]

Robert Douglas Osborne 561846 , attached to RAF Cawnpore, died of cerebral malaria

[jonheyworth]

Alfred Sirdefield 1081540 | attached to 27 MU | was killed in a road accident on Birmingham New Road at Coseley, Staffs. He was dead in arrival at the Royal Hosp Wolverhampton and was transferred to Coseley mortuary

[jonheyworth]

Charles Swift Donnelly 853679 | a medically discharged Airman at the time of his death, was admitted to the Belmont EMS hospital, Liverpool on 18 June, dying of pulmonary tuberculosis

This Information was obtained via a visit to the Liverpool Archives which sadly proved the impractability of research in regional archives