410520 - Unaccounted airmen - 20-5-1941

[Henk Welting]

On a list of allied aircraft losses/accidents and crew casualties in Somerset 1939-1945 is mentioned for 20-5-1941:

Henley I - L3442 - 1 AACU Weston Zoyland, crashed on target tow practice, 2 crew members killed.

AB Serials however has for L3442: 1 AACU/1613 Flt/1623 Flt/1601 Flt - swung on landing and u/c collapsed, Weston Zoyland, 25.10.43, DBR.

On my 'unaccounted list' are for 20-5-1941 among other:
Sgt (Pilot) James LAMBERT - 513451 and Sgt (Ag) Claude JONES - 953904.

Is it possible these airmen were killed in the accident and L3442 repaired ?

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Henk Welting]

Forgot to check Aeromilitaria list "Crashes in UK" and Somerset list probably wrong; both airmen may have been killed on Tiger Moth II - N9274 - 10 EFTS - dived into ground Weston-super-Mare.

Regards,
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Both Lambert,29, and Jones,24, are registered in the 2nd Qtr of 1941 at Brixworth, Northamptonshire about 7 mls N of Northampton itself. A long way from Weston Zoyland.
Regards
Dick

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dick (threw the Somerset list in the dust bin !).
Regards,
Henk.

[davew]

Henk

Possibly Wellington W5712 at Artingworth, Northants.

regards

DaveW

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dave for link to Wellington W5712. AB for this serial: Dived into ground near Market Harborough. Is this same area as Arlingworth ?
Regards,
Henk.

[malcolmmacdonald]

I too have James Lambert as a Sergeant (Pilot) 'killed on active service' and interred at Denny and Dunipace Cemetery. His home address was 16 Loanhead Drive, Denny.

He was 29 years of age and his father Gunner Charles Graham Lambert of the Royal Field Artillery was killed in Belgium on 12 November 1917. The mother was Marjory Agnes Lambert.


Regards
Malcolm

[davew]

Henk

Yes near Market Harborough in Leicestershire, but Artington is just over the border in Northamptonshire

DaveW

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Artington also looks close enough for deaths to be recorded at Brixworth
Regards
Dick

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dave, Dick & Malcolm for clearing this up to me.
Regards,
Henk.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

Sgt (Pilot) James LAMBERT - 513451 - the Falkirk Herald of May 24th 1941 reported the following:

DENNY AIRMAN KILLED
After being posted as missing a few days ago, official intimation was received yesterday that Sergt. Pilot James Lambert, of the R.A.F., has been killed in a flying accident.

The Graves Registration Forms list both him and Jones as being with 37 M.U.

Oddly there's another thread for this date:

http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?2887-410520-Unaccounted-airman-20-5-1941

Wellington W5712 lost on delivery flight; crashed into ground out of cloud at Arthingworth near Market Harborough. Already as casualties on this aircraft: Sgt James LAMBERT - 513451 and Sgt Claude JONES - 953904, death of both registered at Brixworth.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Harold Mervyn Tracy 844976 , ( TRACEY in his records ) , died at Queen's Park Railway station, Kilburn, of self inflicted gun shot wounds

[jonheyworth]

John Burke 340275 , attached to Number 4 Recruits Centre, was seriously injured in a road accident at Broughton. Admitted to RAF Station hospital, Bridgnorth, he died at 23:45 Hours of multiple injuries

[jonheyworth]

William Percival Hutchinson 983217 I of Brynmor, Cwm Road, Dyserth, Flint I , had been captured at Maleme on 20 May and was being marched away when the prisoners and escort where fired upon by NZ machine guns. Hutchinson was badly wounded with most of his intestine shot out . He was deeply unconscious and with the fire so heavy and with most of the other prisoners by now wounded , they applied dressings and crawled away. He was not seen again but survival was impossible in the view of the other Airman present

[jonheyworth]

Henry Frederick Betts 548425

And

John Mooney 292367

And

Frank Thomas Williams 365037

Were reported to have been killed in action at Maleme on 20 May by
Corporal A.W. Bond, all being buried near Maleme

[jonheyworth]

Albert Stewart 521630 I was seen to be killed in action and buried near Maleme by LAC W.I. Spalding

[jonheyworth]

Kenneth George Abbott 651897 | was seen dead by LAC Greenhaugh at Maleme

[jonheyworth]

Kenneth George Albert 651897 |

Norman Bert Jones Alexander 529742 |

Went missing during the withdrawal stage on Crete and no trace of them was ever discovered

[jonheyworth]

Mervyn Sidney Goodhand 749664 | was reported killed as a battle casualty in the fighting on Crete

[jonheyworth]

Maxwell Hoyes 561167 | was reported missing as a battle casualty on 31 May. His death was presumed to have occurred on 20 May, but no further information was ever discovered