450628 - Unaccounted Airmen - 28-06-1945

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

450628 - Unaccounted Airmen - 28-06-1945

From Henk's List -

UK
COUCH, Matthew Meikle - Cpl - 1370537 - RAFVR - Inveresk Parish Churchyard, Midlothian.
LOWE, George Cyril - LAC - 1113671 - RAFVR - Wrightington (St. James the Great ) Churchyard, Lancashire.
WICKHAM, Richard Francis Ernest - Sqdn/Ldr - 74578 - RAFVR - Halton (St. Michael ) Churchyard, Buckinghamshire.

GERMANY
COX, Leonard Peter - F/L - 71196 - MiD - RAF - Celle War Cemetery, Niedersachsen, Germany.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

EGYPT
PARRISH, Arthur James Frederick - P/O (Pilot Instr ) - 195575 - RAFVR - Fayid War Cemetery, Egypt. - [ Harvard IIa - EX111 ( 41-33084, c/n 88-9190 ) - 73 OTU ].
WHELAN, Gerald - P/O (Pilot) - 193295 - RAFVR - Fayid War Cemetery, Egypt. - [ Harvard IIa - EX111 ( 41-33084, c/n 88-9190 ) - 73 OTU ].

UK
AYTON, Gordon Frederick - F/L (Pilot) - 51167 - D.F.C - RAFVR - East Dereham Cemetery, Norfolk. - [ Mosquito KA317 - 45 Gp DF ].

ZIMBABWE
FYNN, Ivor De Berdt Clifford - F/L- 80003 - E. D - RAFVR - Esigodini Cemetery, Zimbabwe.

Alex

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

GERMANY
COX, Leonard Peter - F/L - HQ 2TAF.

EGYPT
PARRISH, Arthur James Frederick - P/O (Pilot Instr ) - Harvard IIa - EX111 ( 41-33084, c/n 88-9190 ) - 73 OTU ].
WHELAN, Gerald - P/O (Pilot) - Harvard IIa - EX111 ( 41-33084, c/n 88-9190 ) - 73 OTU ].

UK

COUCH, Matthew Meikle - Cpl - not Eng/Wales?.
LOWE, George Cyril - LAC - registered in Wigan.
WICKHAM, Richard Francis Ernest - Sqn/Ldr - registered in Aylesbury.
AYTON, Gordon Frederick - F/L (Pilot) - Mosquito KA317 - 45 Gp DF ].

ZIMBABWE
FYNN, Ivor De Berdt Clifford - F/L- RAF Kumalo

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

COUCH, Matthew Meikle - died of a Cerebral Haemorrhage and Monocytic Leukaemia at his home in Forth View, Musselburgh at 11.30pm on June 28th. He had been diagnosed with the Leukaemia some 4 months earlier, according to the Statutory Deaths notice on Scotland's People. His occupation is given as House Painter (Corporal R.A.F.).

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Edward Alexander Andrewes R 68041 , died in Vancouver general hospital of pulmonary tuberculosis

[jonheyworth]

Leonard Peter Cox 71196 , attached to HQ 2 TAF Main, was killed in a collision between a staff car and a Bedford lorry at Celle, being dead on arrival at Number 29 British general hospital

[jonheyworth]

Richard Francis Wickham 74578 , attached to RAF Andover, was admitted dangerously ill to RAF hospital Halton on 23 June, where he died at 03:10 Hours of carcinoma of the throat