450726 - Unaccounted Airmen - 26-07-1945

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

450726 - Unaccounted Airmen - 26-07-1945

From Henk's List -

GERMANY
ROWE, Russell Bertram - LAC - 1026078 - RAFVR - Hanover War Cemetery, Niedersachsen, Germany.

UK
BEARD, Charles - LAC - 1099471 - RAFVR - Netherton (St. Andrew ) Churchyard, Worcestershire.
CALDERBANK, Thomas Kitchener - LAC - 925430 - RAFVR - Horwich (Ridgmont ) Cemetery, Lancashire.
HABGOOD, William Victor - LAC - 1232877 - RAFVR - Southgate Cemetery, Middlesex.
MOORE, Jack Girling - LAC - 1448094 - RAFVR - Wymondham Cemetery, Norfolk.
TATE, William John Charles - LAC - 1467335 - RAFVR - Bournemouth North Cemetery, Hampshire.
WHEELER, Charles - W/O - SR4 - MiD - RAF - Orford (St. Bartholomew ) Churchyard, Suffolk.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

EGYPT
BOSWORTH, Peter - Sgt (Pilot) - 1608830 - RAFVR - Fayid War Cemetery, Egypt. [ Thunderbolt II - KJ338 - 73 OTU ].

INDIA
PAFFEY, George William - AC1c - 2247714 - RAFVR - Madras War Cemetery, Chennai, India.

Alex

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

GERMANY
ROWE, Russell Bertram - LAC - Welfare Unit.

UK
BEARD, Charles - LAC - registered in Dudley.
CALDERBANK, Thomas Kitchener - LAC - not Eng/Wales?.
HABGOOD, William Victor - LAC - registered in Maidstone.
MOORE, Jack Girling - LAC - registered in Norwich.
TATE, William John Charles - LAC - registered in Bournemouth.
WHEELER, Charles - W/O - registered in Samford.

EGYPT
BOSWORTH, Peter - Sgt (Pilot) - Thunderbolt II - KJ338 - 73 OTU ].

INDIA
PAFFEY, George William - AC1 - He was killed whilst flying in Liberator VI, EW225 or EW247 of the AFTU, which collided with each other whilst flying in formation in cloud.

Malcolm

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

INDIA - PAFFEY, George William.

Matt Poole has exhaustively researched the mid-air collision between Liberators EW225 and EW347, on 26 July 1945. The results of his labours, can be viewed here:

http://www.rquirk.com/amarda/26July45storyV6eb.pdf

(Paffey was aboard Liberator EW247).

Col.

[wwrsimon]

CALDERBANK Thomas Kitchener - Scotland's People website's Statutory Deaths records that he died at the Royal Naval Hospital, Invergordon, at 07.00 hours of acute pyonephrosis of the left kidney.

Regards

Simon

[Martyn A Critchlow]

ROWE, Russell Bertram - LAC - 1026078 - probate shows death occurring at Buckleburg, Germany.

Martyn

[Lyffe]

I think your 'Buckleburg' might be Bückeburg, Martyn. It's a town in Lower Saxony; the RAF had a presence there from about May 1945.

Brian

[jonheyworth]

Thomas Kitchener Calderbank 925430 , attached to 4 C OTU, died in the Royal Naval hospital at Invergordon of pyonephrenosis of his left kidney

[jonheyworth]

Russell Bertram Rowe 1026078 , attached to 2863 Squadron RAF Regiment , died of self inflicted gun shot wounds at Y99 airfield , Gutersloh

[jonheyworth]

Charles Beard 109471, a medically discharged Airman at the time of his death, had been admitted seriously ill to the British military hospital, Calcutta on 29 January 1943 suffering with a pulmonary abscess. He became dangerously ill and was embarked at Bombay on 26 October 1943 and admitted to the Baragwanath Military hospital in South Africa on 9 November 1943 . Repatriated to the UK , leaving on 15 February 1944 he was admitted to Chester hospital and discharged from the RAF, dying at home in Dudley of pulmonary tuberculosis

[jonheyworth]

Jack Girling Moore 1448094 | attached to Number 80 Signals Wing | was admitted to RAF Hospital Halton on 29 June. He was transferred to the Woodlands hospital Bowthorpe Road, Norwich on 2 July, where he died of pleural effusion and sarcoma of the abdomen

[jonheyworth]

William John Charles Tate 1467335 | attached to Number 1 Wing of Number 5 PDC | was admitted seriously ill to the Royal Victoria and Hants hospital, Bournemouth, on 22 July, dying of jaundice