401212 - Unaccounted airmen - 12-12-1940

[Henk Welting]

What caused the death of and/or what were the places of death registration for:

Sgt (Pilot/Instructor) Kenneth A. BALDRY - 741301 (RAF from Australia) - killed on active service;
LAC (Pilot u/t) Edward R.J. CLATWORTHY - 923468 - killed on active service;
Sgt (Pilot) Gilbert A. COLLINS - 742684 - not found Flight archives;
AC2 Frank R. DALTON - 937424 - missing and commemorated on Panel 289 of the Runnymede Memorial (also looking for his unit; may have been killed in air raid and body not found) - not found Flight archives, and
LAC (Pilot u/t) Roderick G.L. MacKENZIE - 1104259 - killed on active service.

Proposed aircraft loss:

Master I - T8326 - 5 FTS - dived into ground, Nannerch, Flintshire.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Clatworthy,21, is registered at Holywell, Flintshire, which suggests T8326. Baldry,23, and MacKenzie,18, are registered at Weston in N Somerset,Collins,23, is registered at Warwick. Dalton doesn't come up, so perhaps lost at sea or somewhere like that or died outside England and Wales
Regards
Dick

[Argus]

Hello Henk,

Unaccounted airmen - 12-12-1940

Sgt (Pilot) Gilbert A. COLLINS - 742684

Killed when Hurricane P2548 of 55 OTU force landed and overturned at Hunningham.

Source: The Midland Aircraft Recovery Group

Regards

Finn Buch

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Warwick would be the place for registering a death at Hunningham
Regards
Dick

[davew]

Henk

Baldry & McKenzie were in TM T5442 which crashed in Bristol Channel near Weston super Mare.

regards

DaveW

[alclark]

Clatworthy is recorded in the 5 FTS ORB as being in T8326 (it is in the ORB as T3326 whcih was a Beaufighter Mk.IC).

[Henk Welting]

Thanks friends for all this excellent help.
Best regards,
Henk.

[Henk Welting]

Henk

Baldry & McKenzie were in TM T5442 which crashed in Bristol Channel near Weston super Mare.

regards

DaveW


Typo Dave, correct serial was T5422. Unit was 10 EFTS; flew into sea while low flying 1 mile S of Brean Down; crew drowned.
Regards,
Henk.

[paulmcmillan]

10 EFTS ORB
Weston Super Mare: Dec 12 1940: No 741301 Sgt K A M Baldry and 1104259 LAC Mackenzie lost their lives in a flying accident at Brean

[Martyn A Critchlow]

See Unaccounted airmen 12/13-12-1940 for more detail on DALTON.

Martyn