450414 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 14-04-1945

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

450414 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 14-04-1945

From Henk's List -

SOUTH AFRICA
WAAF(SAAF)
MONTGOMERY, Mary - Air Corporal - F/266218 - WAAF(SAAF) - Cape Town (Maitland) Cemetery, Western Cape, South Africa.

REPUBLIC of IRELAND
HUGHES, Sean Sheanus - AC1c - 1797585 - RAFVR - Slieverue catholic Churchyard, County Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland.

UK
CORDERY, Percy Charles - LAC - 1471799 - RAFVR - Sidcup Cemmetery, Kent.
STAFFORD, George William - W/O - 518977 - RAF - Miserden (St. Andrew) Churchyard, Gloucestershire.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

FRANCE
FINNEY, Ronald Spilsbury - Sgt - 570384 - RAF - Lille Southern Cemetery, Nord, France.

UK
HALL, Jack Dunthorn Laurie - F/L (Pilot) - 46401 - D.F.M - RAF - Montrose (Sleepyhillock) Cemetery, Angus.

Alex

[jossleclercq]

Hello,

From No. 137 Wing ORB (AIR 26/198), in the Senior Medical Officer's monthly résumé :

"On 7 April 1945 a liberty lorry ran into the front of a café in Lille at approx 1700 today. all 24 occupants sustained shock or injury or varying degree and they were all taken to the No. 30 British General Hospital Lille. 18 remaining and six returning to sick quarters Biache. Sgt Armtrong, Sgt Finney, Cpl Trethewey, LAC Hart, LAC Blair and LAC Thornton were the most seriously injured."

No mention of the death of Sgt Finney on 14th April, but the fact that he's buried in Lille, where the accident occured and where was the hospital in which he was brought, leads to the fact he died of the wounds sustained in his accident in an hospital in Lille, probably known as hôpital Calmette here.

He was a member of No. 6226 Servicing Echelon, servicing the Mitchells of No. 226 Squadron, based at B50 Vitry-en-Artois, near Douai. Biache is the name of a village next to Vitry-en-Artois, full name is Biache Saint Vaast.

Joss

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

UK - STAFFORD.

Possibly, No.29 EFTS Tiger Moth II N6726, that was abandoned after the control column jammed, Mangotsfield, Gloucestershre.

Col.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

REPUBLIC of IRELAND
HUGHES, Sean Sheanus - AC1 - 15 (P) AFU.

FRANCE
FINNEY, Ronald Spilsbury - Sgt - he did die from injuries sustained in the crash on 7 Apr 1945

UK
CORDERY, Percy Charles - LAC - registered in Woolwich
HALL, Jack Dunthorn Laurie - F/L (Pilot) - killed whilst flying in Oxford I, LB492 of No 2 FIS, which hit trees during an overshoot at Stracathro.

Malcolm

[jonheyworth]

Sean Sheanus Hughes 1797585, attached to Number 15 P AFU died sometime around the 14th April, his body being recovered from the river Suir at Waterford on that date

[jonheyworth]

CORRECTION to George William Stafford 518977, attached to Number 3 P AFU, he committed suicide near his home at Kings Farm Sapperton by shooting himself. Depressed at having to leave the RAF on medical grounds following extensive hospitalization for neurasthenia he left a suicide note scratched onto a flat rock

[jonheyworth]

UPGRADE to Alexander Laird 1552397, attached to 2943 Squadron RAF Regiment, he accidently drowned at Dwelha, Burma

[jonheyworth]

Finney 570384 , his actual cause of death was an intracranial haemorrhage in the corpus caleosum extending below the floor of the left lateral ventricle. He had not regained consciousness since the road accident

[jonheyworth]

John Wilson Sutherland 16830 , was killed when RAAF vehicle 211691 , struck a stump at 22:45 Hours on the Cloncurry road. The driver Sgt. Lyons, was convicted of 3 offences including the unauthorised taking of the vehicle

[jonheyworth]

Percy Charles Cordery 1471799, collapsed in the Woolwich foot tunnel whilst on discharge leave and died of cardiac faliure