460313 - Unaccounted Airmen - 13-03-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460313 - Unaccounted Airmen - 13-03-1946

From Henk's List -

UK
KNOWLES, James David Howie - LAC - 1509913 - RAFVR - Tranent New Cemetery, East Lothian.
PURNELL, Frederick Percy Edward - P/O - 170631 - RAF - 156 Sqdn - Tottenham Cemetery, Middlesex.

From CWGC, Krzystek's & Geoff's Sites -

INDIA
RICE, William Terence - F/Lt(Pilot) - 153103 - RAFVR - Calcutta ( Bhowanipore ) Cemetery, Kolkata, India - [ Spitfire XIV - RM982 - 4 CMU ].

MYANMAR
DAY, Kenneth Julian - Cpl - 1676862 - RAFVR - Rangoon War Cemetery, Myanmar.

UK
KACZORKIEWICZ, Jan - Kapitan - PAF - Edinburgh ( Corstorphine Hill ) Cemetery, Edinburgh.

Alex

[wwrsimon]

Alex

UK
KNOWLES, James David Howie - LAC - 1509913 - the Statutory Deaths Register on the Scotland's People website records that he died at 0.43 a.m. at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, due to acute leukaemia.

PURNELL, Frederick Percy Edward - P/O - 170631 - registered Edmonton, Middx.

KACZORKIEWICZ, Jan - Kapitan - PAF - the Statutory Deaths Register on the Scotland's People website records that he died at 10.15 p.m. at the Paderewski Hospital, Edinburgh, due to mitral stenosis, from which he had been suffering for 6 years.

RICE, William Terence - F/Lt(Pilot) - 153103 - a newspaper clipping (not cited) on ancestry.co.uk has the following:

RICE - On March 13, 1946, as the result of a flying accident at Calcutta, F/Lt William Terence (Terry) Rice, R.A.F.V.R., Test Pilot, only son of the late Commander W. V. Rice, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N., and of Mrs Tindall, Little Frankham, Mark Cross, Tunbridge Wells, and brother of Pam, aged 22 years.

MYANMAR
DAY, Kenneth Julian - Cpl - 1676862 - a family tree on ancestry.co.uk states that he was "run over by a jeep as he was returning from action."

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Kenneth Julian Day 1676862 , attached to Number 241 Wing, died in a road accident in Rangoon