450803 - Unaccounted Airmen - 03-08-1945

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

450803 - Unaccounted Airmen - 03-08-1945

From Henk's List -

BANGLADESH
GRAHAM, George - LAC - 1480327 - RAFVR - Maynamati War Cemetery, Bangladesh.

UK
CLAMPIT, James - F/O - 52338 - RAF - Paignton Cemetery, Devon.
HALL, Reginald Frank - LAC - 1026520 - RAFVR - Stowmarket Cemetery, Suffolk.
HOOKWAY, Raymond - LAC - 649902 - RAF - Sheffield Crematorium, Yorkshire.
HUTCHINSON, Leonard Fred - AC1c - 1194054 - RAFVR - Heckmondwike Cemetery, Yorkshire.
McNAMARA, Thomas - LAC - 1001462 - RAFVR - Skipton (Waltonwrays) Cemetery, Yorkshire.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

IRAQ
KITCHINGMAN, Richard - LAC - 1428675 - RAFVR - Basra War Cemetery, Iraq.

LIBYA
LAMBERT, Edward Stephen George - Sgt (Nav/Bomber) - 1863540 - RAFVR - Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Libya. ( Boston IIIa - BZ478 - 3 FU ).

SINGAPORE
PERREAU, Vincent Ralph - AC1c - 785783 - RAFVR - Singapore Memorial, Singapore. { Not in "Unsung Heroes" ].

UK
COLLINS, Henry John - W/O (Pilot) - 1330166 - RAFVR - Hove New Cemetery, Sussex. ( Oxford I - PM823 - 136 Wg ).

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

UK - COLLINS, Henry John - 1330166. Oxford serial should read - BM823, not PM823.

Col.

[wwrsimon]

McNAMARA, Thomas - LAC - 1001462 - the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer of August 6th 1945 reports that he drowned while bathing in the River Aire at Sandy Beach, Carleton.

Regards

Simon

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

BANGLADESH
GRAHAM, George - LAC - Forward Echelon, RAF Regiment, .

LIBYA
LAMBERT, Edward Stephen George - Sgt (Nav/Bomber) - Boston IIIa - BZ478 - 3 FU ).

SINGAPORE
PERREAU, Vincent Ralph - AC1 - not in GRO Lists.

UK
CLAMPIT, James - F/O - registered in Whitchurch.
HALL, Reginald Frank - LAC - RAF Ternhill, registered in Totnes.
HOOKWAY, Raymond - LAC - registered in Leeds.
HUTCHINSON, Leonard Fred - AC1 - registered in Stafford.

Malcolm

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

UK - COLLINS, Henry John - 1330166. Oxford serial should read - BM823, not PM823.

Col.

Hello Col,

My error.

Thanks for the correction.
Info in "The price of Peace" page 369 has PM823. Most likely a printers typo.

Henk's list has BM823.

Thanks again

alex

[Alex Smart]

Additional,

POWELL, Kenneth - Sgt(Pilot) - 1623878 - RAFVR - 32 Sqn.
From Headingley, Leeds, Yorkshire.
Aleppo War Cemetery.

[malcolm_raf]

Powell - He was killed whilst flying in a Spitfire of No 32 Sqn, which crashed and caught fire after striking the ground during a practice strafe against a group of 'Priest' self-propelled guns.

Malcolm

[jonheyworth]

Cyril Finney 1075191 , attached to Number 42 EU, died in Number 29 Indian general hospital of heatstoke

[jonheyworth]

Richard Kitchingman 1428675 , attached to Number 43 SP , was admitted dangerously ill to SSQ and transferred to the RAF Ward at Bahrein Government hospital where he died at 22:05 hours of heat hyperpyrexia

[jonheyworth]

George Graham, 1480327 , attached to the RAF Regiment Forward Echelon, was admitted seriously ill to Number 124 Indian General hospital on 7 July where he died of a subphrenic abscess

Graham is the last RAF Airman to be fully accounted for in Bangladesh

[jonheyworth]

Reginald Frank Hall 1026520 | attached to 24 MU | died in SSQ at 24 MU , of a pulmonary embolism

[jonheyworth]

Raymond Hookway 649902 | a medically discharged Airman at the time of his death, had been admitted dangerously ill to Stoke Manderville hospital Aylesbury, on 4 August 1943. He underwent a nephrectomy and was medically discharged but died in Leeds of kidney faliure