450613 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 13-06-1945

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

450613 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 13-06-1945

From Henk's List -

WAAF
MELROSE, Edna - LACW - 2091531 - WAAF - Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (West Road) Crematorium, Northumberland.

BELGIUM
FARROW, Ernest Charles - LAC - 1173701 - RAFVR - Brugge general Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

GERMANY
MORGAN, Wilfred Eric - LAC - 578633 - RAF - Hamburg Cemetery, Hamburg, Germany.

ITALY
WILLS, William Joseph - W/O - 520893 - RAF - Bari War Cemetery, Italy.

UK
HAMSON, Douglas Charles - LAC - 1235027 - RAFVR - Wroughton (SS. John the Baptist & Helen) Churchyard, Wiltshire.
HILBORNE, Leslie Frederick - F/L - 118801 - RAFVR - Hither Green Cemetery, London.
PHILIPSON, John Wesley - Cpl - 1360110 - RAFVR - Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (West Road) Crematorium, Northumberland.
TOMLINSON, Samuel - LAC - 1053192 - RAFVR - Moorthorpe Cemetery, Yorkshire.
WILLIAMS, Augustus John - AC1c - 1296173 - RAFVR - Cardiff Western Cemetery, Glamorganshire.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

Nil

Alex

[wwrsimon]

PHILIPSON, John Wesley - Cpl - 1360110 - the National Probate Calendar states that he died at the General Hospital, South Shields.

Regards

Simon

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

BELGIUM
FARROW, Ernest Charles - LAC - HQ, No 85 Group

GERMANY
MORGAN, Wilfred Eric - LAC - 6247 SE.

ITALY
WILLS, William Joseph - W/O - 110 MU

UK
MELROSE, Edna - LACW - registered in Northumberland S.
HAMSON, Douglas Charles - LAC - registered in Swindon.
HILBORNE, Leslie Frederick - F/L - registered in Lewisham.
TOMLINSON, Samuel - LAC - registered in Huntingdon.
WILLIAMS, Augustus John - AC1 - registered in Bridgend

Malcolm

[jonheyworth]

Edna Melrose 2091531 , attached to Number 83 GSU, became seriously ill on 21st April and was admitted to RAF Hospital Northallerton. Transferred to Sanderson EMS hospital, Gosforth, and from there to Newcastle General hospital, where she Died of chronic nephritis

[jonheyworth]

Augustus William John 1296173 , attached to Number 53 RU, was admitted dangerously ill to RAF hospital St. Athan, where he died the same day of toxic jaundice

[jonheyworth]

Frederick George Clarke 1292597 , attached to Number 5760 MSU , was curried away by the current on an organised bathing party at 08:30 Hours and his body was not recovered

[jonheyworth]

Wilfred Eric Morgan 578633 , attached to Number 6247 SE , died in an off duty road accident at 23:45 Hours

[jonheyworth]

Reginald Joseph Vincent 1666734 , was admitted dangerously ill to Number 9 RAF hospital on 11 June and transferred to the Combined Military hospital at Entally, Calcutta, where he died of acute anterior poliomyelitis

[jonheyworth]

William Wills 520893 , attached to Number 8 ARD SAAF ( he is listed as being of 110 MU ) was found dangerously ill at approximately 08:00 Hours in the vicinity of the Italian Naval monument at Casale. He was admitted to Number 45 British General hospital at Taranto, where he died at 05:20 Hours.

No cause of death was given in his records. The ORB for 110 MU ended before his death, the ORB for 8 ARD only exists in December, there was no record of him in the diary of 45 GH

So , an overseas death certificate was purchased for him by myself and his cause of death was: a sub arachnoid haemorrhage

[jonheyworth]

Douglas Charles Hamson 1235027 | attached to Number 1 PHU RAF Innsworth | was admitted seriously ill to RAF hospital Wroughton on 9 May suffering with carcinoma of the stomach, where he died following a partial gastrectomy

[jonheyworth]

Samuel Tomlinson 1053192 | attached to RAF Graveley | was killed at approximately 05:30
hours, his body being found on the railway line between Huntingdon and Offord Railway station. It was ruled that he had committed suicide