400929 - Unaccounted airman (FAA) - 29-9-1940

[Henk Welting]

What caused the death of:

Lt/A (Pilot) Eldred G. BARROW - Royal Navy (HMS Hermes), from Grimsby, Ontario, Canada. Buried Freetown (King Tom) Cemetery, Sierra-Leone. May have flown a Martlet on HMS Furious.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Amrit]

He was on Hermes and died of illness:

http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1940-09SEP.htm

A

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Amrit. Will inform Les Allison that his info in "They Shall Grow Not Old" is completely wrong.

Regards,
Henk.

[Ken MacLean]

Henk,

Toronto Globe & Mail obituary 9 October 1940 reports cause of death as malaria.

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Ken; will inform Les in Roland/Manitoba !
Regards,
Henk.

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

400929 - Unaccounted Airmen - 29-09-1940

From Henk's List -

SIERRA LEONE
BARROW, Eldred Gore (Canadian) - Lt(A) - HMS Hermes - RN - 814 Sqn,FAA.
Freetown (King Tom) Cemetery, Sierra Leone.
Died of Malaria.

UK
GIBSON, Ralph William - AC1c - 637543 - RAF.
Southampton (St.Mary Extra) Cemetery, Hampshire.
Killed when his motorcycle collided with a lorry.

GREEN, George Robert Fleming - Cpl - 359012 - RAF.
Bristol (Canford) Cemetery, Gloucestershire.
Seriously injured in an Air Raid on the 25th. Died of his injuries at Southmead Hospital.

RUTTER, John Lewis - AC2c - 1162473 - RAFVR - STT.
Kings Norton (St.Nicholas) Churchyard, Warwickshire.
Killed in an Air Raid on RAF Henlow. But also noted as killed in a road accident in Redditch ?

From CWGC -

EGYPT
ANDERSON, Gordon - Lac - 534418 - RAF.
Alexandria (Chatby)Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.
Died in 2/5 General hospital Alexandria of a Haemorrhage.

GERMANY
DINGLE, Arthur Collins - F/O - 72148 - RAFVR.
LITTLEJOHN, John - P/O - 79207 - RAFVR.
TAYLOR,George Henry - Sgt - 644896 - RAF.
TURNER, Gerald Percy - P/O - 79576 - RAFVR.
YOUNG, Peter Archibald - Sgt - 650682 - RAF.
These five airmen rest at Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
They were crew of Wellington Ic - R3150 - 37 Sqn.

HALLAM, Walter Thomas - Sgt - 566919 - RAF.
Durnbach War Cemetery, Bayern, Germany.
Wellington Ic - R3164 - 149 Sqn.

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
PETERS, George Charles Boyce - F/O - 40593 - RAF.
Rathnew Cemetery, County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland.
Hurricane I - P2719 - 79 Sqn.

UK
CATLEY, Frederick Norman Colin - Sgt - 745724 - RAFVR.
HASTIE, Bertram Victor - Sgt - 905660 - RAFVR.
These two airmen rest at Scampton (St.John the Baptist) Churchyard, Lincolnshire.

NICOL,William - Sgt - 742765 - RAFVR.
Ayr Cemetery, Ayrshire.
The three airmen named above were crew of Hampden I - P2134 - 49 Sqn.

COX, Anthony Howard Caldecott - F/Lt - 39502 - RAF.
Merstham (St.Katharine) New Churchyard, Surrey.
NICHOLS, Michael Ivor - P/O - 42635 - RAF.
Honington (All Saints)Churchyard, Suffolk.
These two airmen were crew of Wellington Ic - T2472 - 9 Sqn.

McGIBBON, James - P/O - 84016 - RAFVR.
Faslane Cemetery, Dunbartonshire.
Hurricane I - V7312 - 615 Sqn.

HOBSON, Alan Gordon - Sgt - 551722 - RAF.
MERRICK, Peter Anthony - Sgt - 755031 - RAFVR.
TAYLOR, John Cornelius - Sqn/Ldr - 34115 - RAF.
WATCHOUS, Kenneth Harrison - Sgt - 516040 - RAF.
These four airmen are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey.
They were crew of Hampden I - X2902 - 50 Sqn.

PUMPHREY, Maurice John - Lac - 903238 - RAFVR.
Winchcombe (Greet Road ) Cemetery, Gloucestershire.
Oxford I - P9021 - 3 SFTS.

TOWNSEND, Arthur Hugh - Lac - 938476 - RAFVR.
Woodstock Cemetery, Oxfordshire.
Harvard I - N7165 - 15FTS.

LEYERER, Walter - GAF.
Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery, Staffordshire.
Cause of death ?

Alex

[wwrsimon]

Alex

RUTTER, John Lewis - AC2c - 1162473 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died 'on the main road from Birmingham to Redditch at Hopwood Alvechurch, Worcestershire.'

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Rutter died In a road accident at the location stated. I'm currently working my way through the 17 Airmen unaccounted or poorly accounted from October 1940 BTW