450215 - Unaccounted Airmen - 15-02-1945

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

450215 - Unaccounted Airmen - 15-02-1945

From Henk's List -

BANGLADESH
SWIFT, Robert Edwin- LAC - 539528 -RAF - Maynamati War Cemetery, Bangladesh.
TAGGART, William - Cpl - 1103155 - RAFVR - Maynamati War Cemetery, Bangladesh.

UK
ALLEN, Pelham Bolton - F/S (Pilot) - 1512540 - RAFVR - Manchester Crematorium, Lancashire.
COOK, Henry Arthur - Cpl - 761262 - RAFVR - Cathcart Cemetery, Renfrewshire.
SALTER, Robert - Cpl - 615741 - RAF - Tettenhall Regis (St. Michael ) Churchyard, Staffordshire.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

ATA
FAIRMAN, Albert Edward Roy - Third Officer - ATA (Formrtly F/O RAFVR) - Greenwich Cemetery,London. [ Mustang IV - KH838 - 14 FPP ].

GERMANY
RICHARDS, Owain Glyndwr - F/L (Nav) - 133610 - RAFVR - Kiel War Cemetery, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

SIERRA LEONE
WALDEN, Walter Reeson - LAC - 1479598 - RAFVR - Freetown (King Tom) Cemetery, Sierra Leone.

UK
HUDSON, Leslie Albert - F/L (Pilot) - 136835 - RAFVR - Chester (Blacon) Cemetery, Cheshire.

Alex

[alclark]

F/L Leslie Albert Hudson's death was registered in the Whitchurch district, he is recorded in the No.11 (P)AFU ORB for the 16th with the following:

February 16th 1945, SSQ, “Crash at Loggerheads. Oxford aircraft from Wheaton Aston – Occupants F/Lt L.A. Hudson – killed instantaneously.”

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

15 February, 1945 (Thursday).
21 (P)AFU (RAF Peplow, Shropshire - Satellite to RAF Wheaton Aston, Staffordshire).
Oxford I NM305
Servicing Training.

Crashed at Tern Hill's Stoke Heath site at 12.15 hrs. After the weather deteriorated badly, during the course of the flight the pilot diverted to Tern Hill airfield. However, as he approached through thick fog, he was suddenly confronted by a hangar looming ahead and, with the engines throttled back for landing, the aircraft stalled as he tried to avoid the building, and crashed.

136835 F/Lt (pilot u/t) Leslie Albert Hudson RAFVR +

See:
Pancakes and Prangs - Twentieth-Century Military Aircraft Accidents in Shropshire.
Thorne,Thomas.
Wrexham:Bridge Books,2013.
p.263

Col.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

BANGLADESH
SWIFT, Robert Edwin- LAC - 7152 SE.
TAGGART, William - Cpl - 7152 SE.

GERMANY
RICHARDS, Owain Glyndwr - F/L (Nav) - CWGC has his death as 14 Feb - see E L Williams.

UK
ALLEN, Pelham Bolton - F/S (Pilot) - killed whilst flying in Spitfire IX, PV212 of No 124 Sqn, which crashed into a building in the grounds of Mundesley Sanitorium, Norfolk, during a dive-bombing practice, a soldier was also killed in the accident.
COOK, Henry Arthur - Cpl - registered in Chichester.
SALTER, Robert - Cpl - 615741 - RAF West Kirby registered in Wenlock (RAF Hospital, Cosford?).

Malcolm

[dennis_burke]

Pvt Eric Melley

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2712406/MELLEY,%20ERIC

is on the same page of the death index as F/Sgt Allen. Suspect that is the soldier killed.

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

ALLEN/MELLEY.

http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?17841-Soldier-killed-in-Norfolk-Spitfire-crash-15-2-45

Col.

[dennis_burke]

I new there was a airman - soldier thread recently but I figured whats that chances of it being the same one!

[jonheyworth]

John William George 543189V, was killed in an aircraft accident at PetahTiqva

[jonheyworth]

Walter Reeson Walden 147958 , attached to 176 MU , died in SSQ at RAF Jui of MT malaria

[jonheyworth]

Henry Arthur Cook 761262 , attached to RAF Tangmere, was admitted dangerously ill to St. Richard's hospital, Chichester, on 31 January, where he died of a sub arachnoid haemorrhage

[jonheyworth]

Robert Salter 615741 , attached to RAF West Kirby, was admitted seriously ill to RAF Hospital Cosford on 1 February suffering with Asthma, he became dangerously ill on 14 February, dying of septic endocarditis