460304 - Unaccounted Airmen - 04-03-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460304 - Unaccounted Airmen - 04031946

From Henk's List -

MALTA
DEVANEY, Patrick Aloysius - LAC - 1797772 - RAFVR - Malta Memorial, Malta.

UK
CARTER, Roy Kenneth - LAC - 1459145 - RAFVR - Winchester ( Magdalen Hill ) Cemetery, Hampshire.
JUDD, William James - Cpl - 1020645 - RAFVR - Beckenham Crematorium & Cemetery, Kent.
STODDARD, Geoffrey William - Sqd/Ldr - 31467 - RAFVR - Golders Green Crematorium, Middlesex.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

AUSTRALIA
WHITTAKER, Robert Harold - LAC - 23538 - RAAF - Brisbane ( Lutwyche ) Cemetery, Queensland, Australia.

MALAYSIA
TURTON, Jack - Sqdn/Ldr - 124816 - RAFVR - Kuala Lumpur ( Cheras Road ) Civil Cemetery, Malaysia - [ Thunderbolt FB.2 - KJ213 - 390 MU ].

SINGAPORE
BOOTH, Arthur - AC1c - 1433067 - RAFVR - Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore.

Alex

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

MALTA
DEVANEY, Patrick Aloysius - LAC - 54 SP

UK
CARTER, Roy Kenneth - LAC - not Eng/Wales?.
JUDD, William James - Cpl - registered in Bromley.
STODDARD, Geoffrey William - Sqd/Ldr - not Eng/Wales?.

SINGAPORE
BOOTH, Arthur - AC1 - 5012 Airfield Construction Sqn.

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

Alex/Malcolm

UK
CARTER, Roy Kenneth - LAC - 1459145 - he's Kenneth Roy Carter, died aged 23, registered Ely. The cemetery register for Magdalen Hill Cemetery on ancestry.co.uk has him recorded as such. He is listed as dying at the R.A.F. Hospital, Ely in the regiter.

STODDARD, Geoffrey William - Sqd/Ldr - 31467 - the Gloucester Citizen of March 5th, 1946 reported the following tragic news:

Police officers were called last night to a house in Hornby Avenue, Kenton, Middlesex, where in a back room on the ground floor they found Squadron Leader Jeffery [sic] William Stoddard (28) and his two year old daughter Susan Josephine with bullet wounds in the head. A revolver was lying beside the man's body and a note was also found.

Regards

Simon

[malcolm_raf]

Cheers Simon for these updates and the other in these threads.

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

No problem Malcolm, I'm happy to add what information I can find if it fills in a few small gaps here and there.

Regards

Simon

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

AUSTRALIA.

23538 LAC Robert Harold WHITTAKER RAAF.

23538 LAC Robert Harold WHITTAKER RAAF, was formally discharged from the RAAF on 13 February, 1946. Whittaker, a former member of No.5 (Army Co-Operation) Sqn RAAF, died of an unspecified illness in Queensland on 4 March, 1946. He originally hailed from Burnley, Lancashire, being born there on 24 September. 1921.

Whittaker does not have an A705 file at the National Archives of Australia.

Col.

[jonheyworth]

Patrick Aloysius Devaney 1797772 , attached to Number 54 SP, was reported missing believed drowned whilst bathing at Fajara, Gambia

[jonheyworth]

Roy Kenneth Carter 1459145, attached to SHQ at RAF Woodford, died in RAF Hospital Ely of lobar pneumonia

[jonheyworth]

Arthur Booth 1433067 , died in Number 81 RAF MFH at 02:50 hours of brachial Tuberculosis

[jonheyworth]

James William Judd 1920645 | attached to Number 100 PDC | died on release leave in Beckenham hospital, Kent, at 05:00 Hours of osteomyelitis