450704 - Unaccounted Airmen - 04-07-1945

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

450704 - Unaccounted Airmen - 04-07-1945

From Henk's List -

EGYPT
McDOWELL, John Havelock Wilson - AC1c - 1192254 - RAFVR - Heliopolis War Cemetery, Egypt.

FRANCE
RICE, Seymour Bertie - Cpl - 922950 - RAFVR - Choloy War Cemetery, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.

ITALY
HILLS, John - Sqdn/Ldr - 77100 - RAFVR - Rome War Cemetery, Italy.

NORWAY
PLATT, Harold - F/O - 171557 - RAFVR - Tveit Churchyard, Norway.

UK
JUFFS, Edgar Charles - W/O - 366133 - M.B.E - RAF - Portsmouth (Highland Road ) Cemetery, Hampshire.
LEES, Sidney - AC2c - 1827674 - RAFVR - Stretford Cemetery, Lancashire.
TURNER, Charles Ernest - AC2c - 1253208 - RAFVR - Putney Vale Cemetery & Crematorium, London.
WOODWARD, Albert - Sgt - 1619074 - RAFVR - St. Helens Cemetery, Lancashire.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

DAVIES, Richard Allan - F/S - 1806598 - RAFVR - Ottawa Memorial, Ontario, Canada - [ Mitchell - FE203 - 45 Gp ??? ].
"The Price of Peace" has on page 263, "Mitchell FE203 Gp"??? But FE203 would have been a Canadian built DH Tiger Moth in serial range FE100 to FE266, to USAAF as PT-24's 42-964 to 42-1130. RCAF serial numbers given were 1100 to 1266. So if not a Tiger Moth then the serial number is not correct for a Mitchell ?

However DAVIES and the men listed below were crew of Liberator BZ813 its pilot, the tenth man was F/L. THOMPSON, Alfred Ronald - 416218 - RNZAF.also remembered on the Ottawa Memorial, Ontario, Canada.

FORD, Sidney James - W/O - 1380851 - RAFVR - Ottawa Memorial, Ontario, Canada.
GREEN, Leslie George - F/S - 1869527 - RAFVR - Ottawa Memorial, Ontario, Canada.
LINDSEY, Eric - F/L - 121120 - RAFVR - Ottawa Memorial, Ontario, Canada.
MITCH, Ivor Henry - F/O - 167599 - rAFVR - Ottawa Memorial, Ontario, Canada.
RICHARDSON, Henry Challoner - Sgt - 1590830 - RAFVR - Ottawa Memorial, Ontario, Canada.
ROBINSON, John Peter Guyer - F/O - 166454 - RAFVR - Ottawa Memorial, Ontario, Canada.
ROWSON, John Ernest - Sgt - 1590878 - RAFVR - Ottawa Memorial, Ontario, Canada.
WALKER, John - Sgt - 1595699 - RAFVR - Ottawa Memorial, Ontario, Canada.

KENYA
PLATER, Denis William - Cpl - 1159095 - RAFVR - Nairobi War Cemetery, Kenya.

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

FRANCE - RICE.

Cpl RICE, of No.6201 Bomb Disposal Flight, was killed on 4-7-1945 at St. Wendel, Germany, when German munitions exploded during stacking for demolition.

Col.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

EGYPT
McDOWELL, John Havelock Wilson - AC1 - 16 SP

ITALY
HILLS, John - Sqdn/Ldr - Air Division AC Austria.

NORWAY
PLATT, Harold - F/O - possibly killed whilst flying in Spitfire IX, NH517 of No 130 Sqn, which struck a jetty whilst attempting a forced landing at Kjevik following an engine failure?

UK
JUFFS, Edgar Charles - W/O - registered in Salisbury.
LEES, Sidney - AC2 - registered in Carlisle.
TURNER, Charles Ernest - AC2 - registered in Battersea.
WOODWARD, Albert - Sgt - registered in Aylesbury (RAF Hospital Halton?).

KENYA
PLATER, Denis William - Cpl - RAF Eastleigh.

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

WOODWARD, Albert - the Bucks Herald of Friday July 13th 1945 reports that he took his own life at the sick quarters at Haddenham. The Coroner's verdict was that he took his life while the balance of his mind was disturbed.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

John Havelock Wilson McDowell 1192254 , attached to Number 16 SP , was admitted seriously ill to Number 15 Scottish general hospital on 18 April. For 6 months he had suffered increasing tiredness , aching pains , weight gain and testicular atrophy and diabetes. It was believed he had developed toxic encephalopathy

[jonheyworth]

Edgar Charles Juffs 366163 , a medically discharged airman had been admitted seriously ill to RAF hospital, Cosford on 9 April. Diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis, he was discharged on 12 June,,dying of his illness at home

[jonheyworth]

John Hills 77100 , attached to Air Div Allied Commission Austria, died in Number 104 British General hospital of meningococcal septacemia