460122 - Unaccounted Airmen - 22-01-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460122 - Unaccounted Airmen - 22-01-1946

From Henk's List -

EGYPT
KRIEGLER, D. J - Air Cpl - 73457 - SAAF - King's Commendation for Brave Conduct - Alamein Memorial, Egypt.

LYBIA
EDINGTON, William Malcolm - Cpl - 1365312 - Met Officer - RAFVR - Tripoli War Cemetery, Lybia.

UK
ANDERSON, Hugh - AC2c - 1828004 - RAFVR - Middlebie Cemetery, Dumfriesshire.
COCHRANE, Frank Ernest - LAC - 927402 - RAFVR - Potters Bar ( St. Mary ) Church Cemetery, Middlesex.
GRIME, Alexander ( Alex ) - LAC - 1481006 - RAFVR - Bolton ( Heston ) Cemetery, Lancashire.

From CWGC & Geoff's sites -

AUSTRALIA
BUTCHER, Jack Ernest - LAC - 133555 - RAAF - Sydney War Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia.
McKINNON, John Benson - LAC - 36125 - RAAF - Dubbo General Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia.
NICHOLAS, Francis Leslie - LAC - 136382 - RAAF - New South Wales Cremation Memorial, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
SANDERSON, Peter Adrian David - S/Lt(A) - RNVR - 837 Sqdn FAA - HMS Glory Royal Navy - Springvale War Cemetery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - [ Firefly FR.1 - MB518 - 837 Sqdn - Ditched, DoI on board HMS Armada ].

GERMANY
SHEPHERD, John B - Sqdn/Ldr - 104447 - RAFVR - D.F.C & 2 Bars - 41 Sqdn - Hamburg Cemetery, Germany - [ Tempest V - NV640 - 41 Sqdn ].

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

AUSTRALIA

133555 LAC Jack Ernest BUTCHER RAAF.

133555 LAC (Fitter DMT) Jack Ernest BUTCHER RAAF (of No.47 Radar Station, Kalamundra, Perth, W.A.), died on 22 January, 1946, in the Lady Davidson Home, Turramurra, N.S.W., from the effects of Pulmonary Tuberculosis.


36125 LAC John Benson McKINNON RAAF.

36125 LAC (Cook) John Benson McKINNON RAAF (of No.6 Stores Depot, Dubbo), was accidentally drowned in the Macquarie River near Dubbo, New South Wales, on 22 January, 1946. The Coroner found that the deceased died from asphyxiation from drowning, but how, or by what means, he came to be drowned, the evidence adduced did not enable him to say.

136382 LAC Francis Leslie NICHOLAS RAAF

136382 LAC Francis Leslie NICHOLAS RAAF, formerly of the Radio Development & Installation Unit, Melbourne, was officially discharged from the RAAF on 30 October, 1945. He passed away at his residence at Richmond Road, Blacktown, N.S.W., from an unspecified illness, on 22 January, 1946.

Sub-Lieut (A) SANDERSON's navigator (who was rescued), was Sub-Lieut (A) F. R. BINKS FAA.



Col.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

LYBIA
EDINGTON, William Malcolm - Cpl - 1365312 - Met Officer - RAFVR - Tripoli War Cemetery, Lybia.

UK
ANDERSON, Hugh - AC2 - registered in Chapel-en-la-Frith.
COCHRANE, Frank Ernest - LAC - registered in Aylesbury.
GRIME, Alexander ( Alex ) - LAC - registered in Farnworth.

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

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UK
COCHRANE, Frank Ernest - LAC - 927402 - the National Probate Calendar states that he died at the Princess Mary Hospial, Halton.

Regards

Simon

[Lyffe]

EDINGTON was serving at Castel Benito. He died in 89 General Hospital, Tripoli, from injuries received in a motor transport accident (from death certificate).

Brian

[jonheyworth]

Hugh Anderson 1828004 , attached to 14 MU , died in Dumfries infirmary of a sub arachnoid heamorhage

[jonheyworth]

William Malcolm Edington 1365312 , attached to RAF Castle Benito, was run over by a vehicle on 22 January causing multiple injuries. Admitted dangerously ill to Number 89 General hospital at 09:50 hours, a listers splint had been applied under chloroform at the roadside and morphine given. Admitted unconcious with a compound fracture of middle and third left numerous and middle third left femur and with pulse and blood pressure barely detectable, he was started on a plasma drip but died at 13:00 hours still unconscious

[jonheyworth]

Alexander Grime 1481006 , attached to 2794 Squadron RAF Refgiment, became seriously ill on 20 June 1945 and was admitted to RAF Hospital, Wilmslow. Transferred to Townleys Hospital, Bolton, on 28 September, he died there of cancer

[jonheyworth]

Frank Ernest Cochrane 927402 | attached to 13 MU | was admitted seriously ill with an intestinal obstruction to RAF hospital Halton on 28 August 1945. He was taken off the list on 10 September but became dangerously ill with carcinoma of the colon on 22 January 1946, dying at 07:40 Hours with his Sister, Mrs. Wright of Southgate Street, Potters Bar, at his bedside