460309 - Unaccounted Airmen - 09-03-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460309 - Unaccounted Airmen - 09-03-1946

From Henk's List -

UK
BROWN, William John McDonald - W/O - 1366043 - RAFVR - Alva Cemetery, Clackmannanshire.
DAWSON, Edward Ernest - LAC - 960575 - RAF - Clacton Cemetery, Essex.
FRANKLIN, Henry Edward - W/O - 346281 - RAF - Codsall ( St. Nicholas ) Churchyard Extension, Staffordshire.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

AUSTRALIA
SMITH, Francis Amiens - LAC - 71905 - RAAF - Sydney War Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia.

CANADA
BROWN, James Walter - W/Oc1 - 524678 - RAF - Montreal ( Mount Royal ) Cemetery, Quebec, Canada.

ITALY
BALAAM, Horace William - Cpl - 1239399 - RAFVR - Naples, Italy.

UK
GARDNER, Roger Ham - Lt(A) - HMS Vulture - Royal Navy - 709 Sqdn - Lee-On-Solent Memorial, Hampshire - [ Firefly FR.1 - MB638(736 Sqdn) ] - Aircraft collided with Firefly FR.1 - MB643 who's pilot Lt R.B.Giblin USNR was rescued.

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

AUSTRALIA.

71905 LAC Francis Amiens SMITH RAAF.

71905 LAC (Turner) Francis Amiens SMITH (of No.2 Personnel Depot, Sydney), was seriously injured in a pub brawl at the St. Leonards Hotel, Crow's Nest, on 8 March, 1946. A deaf mute slashed his throat with a broken glass, severing his jugular vein. Smith was admitted to the Royal North Shore Hospital and died there on 9 March, 1946. The perpetrator (aged 23), was convicted of manslaughter and received a five-year jail sentence.

Col.

[wwrsimon]

Alex

UK
BROWN, William John McDonald - W/O - 1366043 - the Statutory Deaths Register on the Scotland's People website records that he died at 3.00p.m. at Cowglen Military Hospital, Glasgow as the result of acute leukaemia.

DAWSON, Edward Ernest - LAC - 960575 - registered Colchester

FRANKLIN, Henry Edward - W/O - 346281 - registered Bilston

Regards

Simon

[paulmcmillan]

CANADA
BROWN, James Walter - W/Oc1 - 524678 - RAF - Montreal ( Mount Royal ) Cemetery, Quebec, Canada.

Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948



Name: James Walter Brown
Death Date: 09/03/1946 (9 Mar 1946)
Rank: W O I
Unit: Royal Air Force
Service Number: 5264678
Cemetery: Mount Royal Cemetery
Burial Place: Montreal Quebec Canada

Death Due to pulmonary tuberculosis at St Anne de Bellevuew Hospital,
Montreal P.Q - Death Due to Service

[jonheyworth]

Horace William Balaam 1239397 , a Clerk/GD attached to 114 MU , was duty clerk and slept in the unit accounts office that night. In the morning, the Italian cleaning boy found him dead from multiple stab wounds. The safe, which weighed 8 CWT had been moved outside the office but was still closed. RAF SIB arrived at 08:00 Hours and sealed the scene and confined all airmen to camp. No one appears to have been charged but steps were begun to remove all Yugoslavian Airmen from the unit