450705 - Unaccounted Airmen - 05-07-1945

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

450705 - Unaccounted Airmen - 05-07-1945

From Henk's List -

ALGERIA
NORMAN, Leonard Albert - LAC - 1236623 - RAFVR - Dely Ibrahim War Cemetery, Algeria.

GERMANY
POWELL, Thomas Robert - Cpl - 1272546 - RAFVR - Cologne Southern Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
SMITH, James Arthur - F/L (Pilot ) - 152262 - 263 Sqdn - RAFVR - Celle War Cemetery, Niedersachsen, Germany.

UK
GILMOUR, Kenneth McL - LAC - 617295 - RAF - Glasgow (Cardonald ) Cemetery, Glasgow.
SPARK, Basil Douglas - F/L (Pilot ) - 128904 - RAFVR - Epsom Cemetery, Surrey.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

INDIA
BLACK, Robert Loughlan Greens - LAC - 1347515 - RAFVR - Kirkee War Cemetery, India.

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

GERMANY - POWELL.

Cpl. POWELL, of No.6201 Bomb Disposal Flight, was killed on 5-7-1945 at Eudenbach, Germany, when munitions being stacked, exploded.

Col.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

ALGERIA
NORMAN, Leonard Albert - LAC - 351 MU.

UK
GILMOUR, Kenneth McL - LAC - not Eng/Wales?.
SPARK, Basil Douglas - F/L (Pilot ) - killed whilst flying in Halifax VI, RG651 of No 78 Sqn, which landed too far up the runway at Holme on Spalding Moor, ran off the end and into a ditch having swung to avoid some workmen but the undercarriage collapsed.

INDIA
BLACK, Robert Loughlan Greens - LAC - 2748 Sqn RAF Regiment.

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

GILMOUR, Kenneth McLeod - Scotland's People Register of Deaths states that he died at Dr. Gray's Hospital, Elgin at 00.30 a.m, due to a severe laceration of the brain, the result of a fractured skull which he had suffered in a road accident.

Regards

Simon

[RecklessRat]

Dear Alex,

From AIR 27/1549, 263 Sqn ORB: July 1945 F540

R.16 Hildesheim, Germany
5th
This afternoon 12 aircraft did formation flying as a practice for the fly past at Brussles (sic). Two
air tests were also carried out. Five new pilots joined the Squadron today, namely, F/Lt.
R.D.Taylor, F/O. W.Recile, W/O. F.Aspinall, Sgt. J.D.Mercer and Sgt. G.W.Smith.
A tragic accident occurred in the evening when F/O. J.A.Smith was fatally injured in an M.T.
accident. "Smithy's" death was a sad blow to the Squadron.

8th
The aircraft returned safely to base today. F/O.Smith's funeral took place today at the
military cemetery at Celle.

Regards,

Jeff

[jonheyworth]

Leonard Albert Norman 1236623 , died of acute enchapalitis in Number 2 RAF General hospital having been admitted seriously ill on 1 July