460317 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 17-03-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460317 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 17-03-1946

From Henk's List -

WAAF
UK
COLES Olive Ruth - LACW - 2030586 - WAAF - Rickmansworth ( Chorleywood Road ) Cemetery, Hertfordshire.

EGYPT
SCUTT, Basil Joseph - F/Sgt - 521881 - RAF - Heliopolis War Cemetery, Egypt.

UK
FRANKLIN, Charles Haigh - LAC - 853790 - RAF(AAF) - Liverpool ( Allerton ) Cemetery, Lancashire.
LANSDOWNE, George - Sqdn/Ldr - 13132 - RAF - D.F.C - Yarmouth ( St. James ) Church Cemetery, Isle of Wight.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

INDIA
BENJAMIN, D - AC1c - 45055 - RIAF - Delhi/Karachi 1939-1945 War Memorials, India.

Alex

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

UK
COLES Olive Ruth - LACW - registered in Watford.

EGYPT
SCUTT, Basil Joseph - F/Sgt - 22 PTC.

UK
South( Allerton ) Cemetery, Lancashire.
LANSDOWNE, George - Sqdn/Ldr - registered in Isle of Wight.

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

Alex/Malcolm

UK
FRANKLIN, Charles Haigh - LAC - 853790 - registered Liverpool.

Regards

Simon

[vrajm]

S/L LANSDOWNE George

His biography:

… died in the County Hospital on Sunday at the age of 59, after a brief illness. …

http://www.isle-of-wight-memorials.org.uk/war-graves/yar/yarmouthcemy_lansdowne_g.htm

DFC 1919 North Russia

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31703/supplement/15840/data.pdf

Mojmir

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

S/L George LANSDOWNE.

Fairey IIIB Tractor Biplane Seaplane N9249

Mkrs @ 30.1.19.

RAF(R) HMS Pegasus (Dvina River) 27.4.19.

Attack on Bolsheviks, petrol tank hit by bullet but returned safely 8.7.19. (Lt L M Hilton & Lt G J Reid unhurt).

Shot down near Advanced Bolshevik Gunboats, crashed in enemy lines 14.7.19 (2/Lt H L Marshall & Lt G Lansdowne both PoW)

See:
Royal Navy Aircraft Serial and Units 1911-1919.
Sturtivant,Ray & Gordon Page.
Tonbridge:Air-Britain (Historians),1992.
p.299

Col.

[jonheyworth]

Olive Ruth Coles 2030586 , a driver MT attached to RAF Scampton, died in the Shrondells EMS hospital, Watford of tuberculosis

[jonheyworth]

DORAISWAMY Benjamin 45055 , died at Aundh in Number 8 Indian General hospital of pulmonary tuberculosis

[jonheyworth]

Basil Joseph Scutt 521881 , attached to Number 22 PTC , was admitted seriously ill to Number 5 RAF hospital on 15 March suffering with pyrexia of an unknown origin. He became dangerously ill the following day and died of a perforated peptic ulcer. Post Mortem the final cause of death was given as a perforated typhoid ulcer