450812 - Unaccounted Airmen - 12-08-1945

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

Apology for break in service due to family bereavement.

So to continue,

450812 - Unaccounted Airmen - 12-08-1945

From Henk's List -

EGYPT
SMITH, Cyril G - LAC - 1578898 -

ITALY
DAVIES, Thomas Hubert - LAC - 12118754 -RAFVR - 214 Sqn - Bari War Cemetery, Italy.

UK
FARRER, Joseph Clifford - Sqn/Ldr - 75492 - RAF - Boughton Malherbe ( St. Nicholas ) Churchyard, Kent.
PARK, Andrew - Cpl - 1145092 - RAFVR - Hellensburgh Cemetery, Dunbartonshire.
WRIGHT, Peter Charles - W/O ( WoP/AG ) - 754616 - A. F. M - RAFVR - Salisbury ( London Road ) Cemetery, Wiltshire.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

EGYPT
SMITH, Cyril Gordon - LAC- 1578898 - RAFVR - Heliopolis Cemetery, Egypt.

ITALY
DRUMMOND, William - LAC - 1345105 - RAFVR - Rome War Cemetery, Italy.

LIBYA
O'DONNELL, Charles Martin - Sgt - 1606401 - RAFVR - Benghazi War Cemetery, Libya.

Alex

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

UK
FARRER, Joseph Clifford - Sqn/Ldr - registered in Maidstone.
PARK, Andrew - Cpl - registered in Amounderness.
WRIGHT, Peter Charles - W/O ( WoP/AG ) - registered in Selby.

EGYPT
SMITH, Cyril Gordon - LAC- 168 MU.

ITALY
DRUMMOND, William - LAC - 65 SP.
DAVIES, Thomas Hubert - LAC - 214 Group

LIBYA
O'DONNELL, Charles Martin - Sgt - 12 FU

Malcolm

[jimroutledge]

Malcolm,

P.C. WRIGHT 754616. I am not sure that it will help but his recommendation for the AFM was raised by No. 267 Sqn (Air 2/9036) and gazetted 1 Jan 1945, not long before his death. It reads "This airman joined the Squadron in January 1942. From October 1941 to January 1942 he had been on operations with no 84 Sqn Flying Blenheims. He was in he Western Desert from Alamain to Tunis and subsequently in Northern Italy, Greece and Yugoslavia. He has shown outstanding flying ability whilst employed as a Wireless Operator (Air)".

I would guess that 267 Sqn raised the recommendation on him leaving the squadron but I know not where he went thereafter.

Jim

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Jim

Thanks for that.

As he was registered in Selby I wonder if he was posted to Burn, which is the only airfield covered by the Selby registration area.

Malcolm

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

Re: Peter Charles WRIGHT.

The following entry in BLME1/103, looks interesting:

27 Nov 1941
84 Sqn.
Blenheim IV Z9538
Op: Army Co-operation.

Took off 1330, LG 75, to bomb Axis motor transport near El Cascia and damaged by flak over Ridge 4041. Belly-landed at base with its hydraulics unserviceable. Not repaired; SOC 18.9.42.

Sgt J D McKillop
P/O S G Turner*
Sgt Wright

See:
Royal Air Force Bomber Losses in the Middle East and Mediterranean Vol.1: 1939-1942.
Gunby,David & Pelham Temple.
Hinckley:Midland Publishing,2006.
p.103.

* Possibly, 920234/(68718) Sidney George TURNER RAFVR, later F/L. DFC, No.88 Sqn. + 13/8/1944.

No corresponding entry in Warner's Bristol Blenheim (2nd.ed.) p.486.

Col.

[Gazzaman58]

Joseph Clifford Farrer was my grandmother's 1st husband - all I know about him is that the reason he is buried at Houghton Malherbe which is the parish church covering Gravity Green in Kent, is that his son is buried there. Peter Farrer was killed in 1942 in a shooting accident aged 13 near Dudley where he was at boarding school. Doris Charlotte Farrer nee Holt my step grandmother was according to family legend the owner of the Who'd a Thought It pub in Grafty Green.

I would be very interested in finding how how any why Joseph Farrer is buried there. Does any of this help?

Gary




Hello,

Apology for break in service due to family bereavement.

So to continue,

450812 - Unaccounted Airmen - 12-08-1945

From Henk's List -

EGYPT
SMITH, Cyril G - LAC - 1578898 -

ITALY
DAVIES, Thomas Hubert - LAC - 12118754 -RAFVR - 214 Sqn - Bari War Cemetery, Italy.

UK
FARRER, Joseph Clifford - Sqn/Ldr - 75492 - RAF - Boughton Malherbe ( St. Nicholas ) Churchyard, Kent.
PARK, Andrew - Cpl - 1145092 - RAFVR - Hellensburgh Cemetery, Dunbartonshire.
WRIGHT, Peter Charles - W/O ( WoP/AG ) - 754616 - A. F. M - RAFVR - Salisbury ( London Road ) Cemetery, Wiltshire.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

EGYPT
SMITH, Cyril Gordon - LAC- 1578898 - RAFVR - Heliopolis Cemetery, Egypt.

ITALY
DRUMMOND, William - LAC - 1345105 - RAFVR - Rome War Cemetery, Italy.

LIBYA
O'DONNELL, Charles Martin - Sgt - 1606401 - RAFVR - Benghazi War Cemetery, Libya.

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hi Jim

Thanks for that.

As he was registered in Selby I wonder if he was posted to Burn, which is the only airfield covered by the Selby registration area.

Malcolm

Malcolm,

What about RAF Riccall?

Col.

[malcolm_raf]

Col

It could also be Riccall, I missed that one.

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

Malcolm

WRIGHT, Peter Charles - W/O ( WoP/AG ) - 754616 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at the Market Square, Selby.

Furthermore, the Yorkshire Evening Post of August 13th reported the following:

DEAD BENEATH WINDOW
An inquest will be held tomorrow on Peter Charles Wright (27), a warrant officer in the Royal Air Force, stationed at Riccall, who was found dead in Selby Market Place, in front of the Londesborough Hotel, having apparently fallen from a top floor window. He was a native of Salisbury.

Regards

Simon

[malcolm_raf]

Hi Simon

Thanks for the update.

Malcolm

[Gazzaman58]

FARRER, Joseph Clifford - Sqn/Ldr - 75492 - RAF - Boughton Malherbe ( St. Nicholas ) Churchyard, Kent.
Died in West Kent Hospital, Maidstone, death certificate states diverticular peritonitis after operation 6th August 1945.

[jonheyworth]

William Drummond 1345105, attached to number 65 SP, he died of injuries sustained in a road accident at 104 British general hospital, Rome

[jonheyworth]

Thomas Hubert Davies 1218754 , died of injuries sustained in an MT accident at Falconara MT yard

[jonheyworth]

Cyril Gordon Smith 1578898 , attached to 168 MU died 8 days after admission to Number 63 general hospital of acute necrosis of the liver caused by infective hepatitis

[jonheyworth]

Charles Martin O'Donnell 1606401 , attached to Number 12 FU , was killed off duty when he fell into an air raid shelter

[jonheyworth]

Andrew Park 1145092, attached to Number 6 MT Company, was admitted dangerously ill to Withington EMS hospital on 7 August, where he died of peritonitis