450117 - Unaccounted Airwomen & Airmen - 17-01-1945

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

450117 - Unaccounted Airwomen & Airmen - 17-01-1945

From Henk's List -

WAAF
UK
RUTHERFORD, Margaret Frost - LACW - 2091613 - WAAF - Blyth Cemetery, Northumberland.
WESTCOTT, Ellen Louisa - LACW - 2066583 - WAAF - 1382 TCH - Langtree Churchyard Devon. (CWGC & Geoffs sites have 17/01/1946 ).

BELGIUM
BUTTERWORTH, Ernest - LAC - 1079195 - RAFVR - Brugge General Cemetery, West-Vlaanderren, Belgium.

SRI LANKA
BEEBY, Derek James - Cpl - 1215084 - RAFVR - 20 APC - Colombo (Liveramentu) Cemetery, Sri lanka.

UK
DAWNS, Wilfred Octavius (Jamacan) - AC2c - 723562 - RAFVR - Harrogate (Stonefall) Cemetery, Yorkshire.
HODSON, Edward Robert - F/S ( Air Bomber) - 1802040 - RAFVR - Greenwich Cemetery, London.
KITCHEN, Kenneth - LAC - 926040 - RAF - Hollington (St. Leonard) Churchyard, Sussex.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

INDIA
MORROW, Frederick - AC2c - 1901506 - RAFVR - Delhi War Cemetery, India.
RIPLEY, Leslie - LAC - 1512028 - RAFVR - Kirkee War Cemetery, India.

UK
HOLDITCH, Robert William - P/O (Pilot) - 189857 - RAFVR - Thorney (St. Helen) Churchyard, Nottinghamshire.

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

UK - HODSON, Edward Robert.

17-1-1945
No.29 OTU
Wellington X NC706
Training.

Wellington NC706 took off from RAF Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire, at 0310, on a night cross-country exercise, and the flight was uneventful up to a request at 0625 for weather conditions at base. No indication of any specific trouble had been received from the aircraft up to this time. Instructions to land were given. Shortly after the aircraft crashed at 0730 hours in a field at Walton near the airfield at Bruntingthorpe, and all the crew were killed.
From an examination of the wreckage, it appeared that the starboard engine had failed. The Captain was a very reliable pilot and experienced in single engine flying, and it was thought that the crash was due to the aircraft's inability to maintain height on one engine.

AUS434330 F/Sgt (Capt./Pilot) Roy Thomas O'REILLY RAAF +
AUS432404 F/Sgt (Nav.) Bruce Thomas DEVALL RAAF +
1802040 F/Sgt (Air Bomber) Edward Robert HODSON RAFVR +
AUS414827 F/Sgt (W.Op./Air Gnr.) Roderick Philip QUINN RAAF +
AUS439556 Sgt (W.Op./Air Gnr.) Bruce Albert ATKINSON RAAF +
AUS431465 F/Sgt (W.Op./Air Gnr.) Robert John WHITE RAAF +

Storr/CWGC/Me.

Col.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

BELGIUM
BUTTERWORTH, Ernest - LAC - 425 RSU

SRI LANKA
BEEBY, Derek James - Cpl - 20 AP.

INDIA
MORROW, Frederick - AC2 - 101 ASP.
RIPLEY, Leslie - LAC - 2 SRU.

UK
RUTHERFORD, Margaret Frost - LACW - registered in Northumberland Central
WESTCOTT, Ellen Louisa - LACW - registered in Barnstaple in 1946.
DAWNS, Wilfred Octavius (Jamacan) - AC2 - registered in Holderness.
KITCHEN, Kenneth - LAC - registered in Hastings
HOLDITCH, Robert William - P/O (Pilot) -died from injuries sustained whilst flying in Stirling III, EF204 of No 1654 HCU on 14 Jan 1945.

Malcolm

[jonheyworth]

Wilfred Octavius Dawns 723562 , was admitted seriously ill to Beverly base hospital at 23:15 hours on 16 January, where he died at 09:05 Hours of pneumonia

[jonheyworth]

Margaret Frost Rutherford 1681797 , on long-term medical leave at the time of her death died at home at 100 Newcastle Road, Newsham, Blyth , of pulmonary tuberculosis

[jonheyworth]

Leslie Martin George Ferguson 134151 ,attached to 252 Squadron , A PILOT ( Although not listed as such by CWGC ) was killed in a flying accident when Hurricane II KZ858 crashed sometime between 16:30 hours and 18:30 Hours 9 miles North of Larnaca

[jonheyworth]

Derek James Beeby 1215084 , attached to Number 20 APC, died of acute anterior poliomyelitis

[jonheyworth]

Frederick Morrow 1901506 , an equipment assistant , died in the British Military hospital, Cawnpore, of typhoid fever

[jonheyworth]

Leslie Ripley 1512028 , accidently drowned on Bombay Beach

[jonheyworth]

Kenneth Kitchen 926040 | attached to RAF Ford | died at 21:00 Hours in the Royal East Sussex hospital, Hastings, of tuberculosis meningitis