460204 - Unaccounted Airmen - 04-02-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460204 - Unaccounted Airmen - 04-02-1946

From Henk's List -

UK
DEWS, Clarence Alfred - LAC - 1156462 - RAFVR - Birmingham (Lodge Hill) Cemetery, Warwickshire.
MIDGLEY, John - F/Sgt - 84008 - RAF - Haywood Cemetery, Lancashire.
REGNARD, Harold Willie Paul - W/O - 349979 - RAF - Ramsgate Cemetery, Kent.

From CWGC , Krzysteks & Geoff's List's -

UK
BRZEZINSKI, Waclaw - Starszy Sierzant - W/O(WoP) - 793023 -PAF.
JEDRZEJCZYH, Wladyslaw Ryszard - Porucznik - F/O(Nav) - P- 2516 - PAF.
MIKULA, Feliks - Plutonowy F/Sgt(Flt/Engr) - 783490 - PAF
SULGUT, Czeslaw Kazimierz - Podporucznik - F/O(A/G) - P-2930/782213 - PAF.
SULINSKI, Romuald - Podpulknownik - Wng/CDR(Pilot) - 76647 - PAF.
SZWANDT, Michal - Sierzant - W/O(Air Bomber) - 794532 - PAF.
The above six airmen were crew of Lancaster B.1 - PA269 - 300 Sqdn. All rest at Newark-Upon-Trent Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

Alex

[wwrsimon]

Alex

UK
DEWS, Clarence Alfred - LAC - 1156462 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at 1b Raddlebarn Road, Birmingham 29. This is the address of Selly Oak Hopsital.

MIDGLEY, John - F/Sgt - 84008 - registered Heywood, Lancs.

REGNARD, Harold Willie Paul - W/O - 349979 - registered Thanet, Kent.

UK
BRZEZINSKI, Waclaw - Starszy Sierzant - W/O(WoP) - 793023 -PAF.
JEDRZEJCZYH, Wladyslaw Ryszard - Porucznik - F/O(Nav) - P- 2516 - PAF.
MIKULA, Feliks - Plutonowy F/Sgt(Flt/Engr) - 783490 - PAF
SULGUT, Czeslaw Kazimierz - Podporucznik - F/O(A/G) - P-2930/782213 - PAF.
SULINSKI, Romuald - Podpulknownik - Wng/CDR(Pilot) - 76647 - PAF.
SZWANDT, Michal - Sierzant - W/O(Air Bomber) - 794532 - PAF.

The crash of the Lancaster was reported in several newspapers at the time. This is the report from the Lancaster Guardian of February 8th 1946:

POLISH AIRMAN KILLED
One of the crew of six Polish airmen who were killed when a Lancaster bomber blew up in mid-air over Wigston Magna, Leicestershire, during a freak thunderstorm on Monday, was Warrant-Officer Michal Shzwandt. In June he married Miss Mary hepworth, at Morecambe, where her family now reside.
Aged 29, Warrant-Officer Shzwandt foight against the German onslaught in Poland, was imprisoned in Lithuania, and escaped to join the Polish Air Force in this country. A bomb-aimer in air operations against the Reich until the cessation of hostilities, he was afterwards employed in flying troops with Italy to England, and in routine duties.

Regards

Simon