450130 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 30-01-1945

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

450130 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 30-01-1945

From Henk's List -

WAAF
UK
BRACKSTONE, Ethel Blanche Teresa - Cpl - 422825 - WAAF - Poole (Branksome) Cemetery, Dorset.

POLAND
BABIN, Aleksander - Sgt - P.????? - Buried at Bydgoszczy.

UK
SHEPHERD, Derek Vivian - Cpl - 611683 - RAF - Herne Bay Cemetery, Kent.
SHORE, Leslie Albert - Cpl - 1156770 - RAFVR - Leicester (Saffron Hill) Cemetery, Leicestershire.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

CANADA
CLARKE, Jack Albert - P/O - 190045 - RAFVR - Vulcan Cemetery, Alberta, Canada. [ Anson II - 7399 - 19 SFTS ].
MAYS, Bernard Dennant - LAC - 1625875 - RAFVR - Vulcan Cemetery, Alberta, Canada. [ Anson II - 7399 - 19 SFTS ].

EGYPT
SMALL, John Roger Colston - Sgt (Pilot) - 1860999 - RAFVR - Fayid War Cemetery, Egypt. [ Thunderbolt I - KL205 - 73 OTU ].
WARREN, William Ernest - Sgt (Pilot) - 1625302 - RAFVR - Fayid War Cemetery, Egypt. [ Thunderbolt I - FL802 - 73 OTU ].
WELLS, Richard Allen - Sgt (Pilot) - 772211 - RAFVR - Fayid War Cemetery, Egypt. [ Thunderbolt I - FL785 - 73 OTU ].

MYANMAR
SWALLOW, Owen William - LAC - 1312615 - RAFVR - Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar. [ Not listed in Unsung Heroes ?].

SOUTH AFRICA
KEALEY, Michael - P/O - 55568 - RAF - Standerton Cemetery, Mpumalanga, South Africa. [ Harvard IIa - 7324(ex EX735/41-33708) - 25 AST ].
OGDEN, John Duncan - AC2c - (Pilot U/T) - 2201720 - RAFVR - Vereeniging Old Town Cemetery, Gauteng, South Africa. [ Harvard IIa - 7138(ex EX248/41-33221) - 22 AST ].
ROADS, George Herbert - AC2c (Pilot U/T) - 1608163 - RAFVR - Vereeniging Old Town Cemetery, Gauteng, South Africa.[ Harvard IIa - 7320(ex EX687/41-33657) - 22 AST ].

Alex

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

UK
BRACKSTONE, Ethel Blanche Teresa - Cpl - registered in Chrristchurch.
SHEPHERD, Derek Vivian - Cpl - registered in Wirral.
SHORE, Leslie Albert - Cpl - not Eng/Wales.

CANADA
CLARKE, Jack Albert - P/O - Anson II - 7399 - 19 SFTS ].
MAYS, Bernard Dennant - LAC -Anson II - 7399 - 19 SFTS ].

EGYPT
SMALL, John Roger Colston - Sgt (Pilot) - Thunderbolt I - KL205 - 73 OTU ].
WARREN, William Ernest - Sgt (Pilot) - Thunderbolt I - FL802 - 73 OTU ].
WELLS, Richard Allen - Sgt (Pilot) - Thunderbolt I - FL785 - 73 OTU ].

MYANMAR
SWALLOW, Owen William - LAC - 3205 SCU.

SOUTH AFRICA
KEALEY, Michael - P/O - Harvard IIa - 7324(ex EX735/41-33708) - 25 AS ].
OGDEN, John Duncan - AC2 - (Pilot U/T) - Harvard IIa - 7138(ex EX248/41-33221) - 22 AS ].
ROADS, George Herbert - AC2 (Pilot U/T) - Harvard IIa - 7320(ex EX687/41-33657) - 22 AS ].

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

Malcolm

SHORE, Leslie Albert - the Statutory Deaths Notice on Scotland's People states that he died at Law Junction Hospital, Carluke, of Myeloid Leukaemia and Terminal Pneumonia. His profession is listed as "Painter and Decorator (Corporal - Royal Air Force)"

Regards

Simon

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Simon

From what you mentioned I thought he may have been part of the ACS but there doesn't seem to a trade of Painter and Decorator in the RAF so perhaps he'd been invalided out earlier.

Malcolm

[jonheyworth]

Derek Vivian Shepherd 611683 , a fitter airframe grade 2, became seriously ill with pulmonary tuberculosis in India on 22nd March 1943. Evacuated to South Africa to Joburg military hospital on 22nd December 1943, he was repatriated to the UK on 12th September 1944, where he died in RAF Hospital West Kirby

[jonheyworth]

Ethel Blanche Teresa Brackstone 422825 , a telephonist attached to RAF Ibsley, was killed in a road accident between an army lorry and a US Army lorry near St. Ives near Ringwood , Hampshire