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Alex Smart
2nd June 2017, 23:00
Hello,

4660328 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 28-03-1946

From Henk's List -

WAAF
UK
SAVAGE, Phyllis May - LACW - 2017104 - WAAF - Froyle (St. Mary ) Churchyard Extension, Hampshire.

GERMANY
JOHNSTON, William Kerr - Cpl - 544269 - RAF - Celle War Cemetery, Niedersachsen, Germany.

SOUTH AFRICA
HALGRYN, J. J - Air Mechanic - 578546 - SAAF - Verkeerdevlei Cemetery, Free State, South Africa.

UK
GORRIE, Alexander Henderson - F/Sgt - 1520954 - RAFVR - 149 Sqdn - Ayr Cemetery, Ayrshire.
SAMSON, Edwin James - S/Lt(A) - HMS. Daedalus RNVR - 783 Sqdn - FAA - Charing ( Kent County ) Crematorium, Kent - [ Anson I - NK953 - Lt. J.R.H. Haddon and Lt. N. Fitsherbert both DoI ].

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

IRAQ
PITHYOU, Zaia - Ran Khamshi - RAF Iraq Levies - Habaniya Memorial, Iraq.

MYANMAR
ACTON, Billie Charles - F/Sgt(Nav) - 1588061 - RAFVR.
CRAIG, James Hubert - F/O - 184054 - RAFVR.
EVANS, Leslie Walter John - W/O(Flt/RNVR) - 1863438 - RAFVR.
HEWITT, Jack - Sgt - 3005444 - RAFVR.
HOLMES, Ronald Noel Lawson - W/O(Flt/RNVR) - 1625069 - RAFVR.
HORN, Frederick Charles - Flt/Sgt(WoP) - 1602914 - RAFVR.
JELL, Allen George - LAC - 3050255 - RAFVR.
McCLURE, Henry George - F/O(WoP/AG) - 184065 - RAFVR.
MILNE, Archibald Charles - LAC - 1573916 - RAFVR.
PAYNE, Cyril Albert - F/Sgt - 1804753 - RAFVR.
PAYNE, William John Cunniffe - LAC - 1795265 - RAFVR.
REGAN, Richard Henry - F/O - 186341 - RAFVR.
STRACHAN, William James - F/O(Air Bomber) - 167877 - RAFVR.
WOOD, John Stanley - F/O - 166189- RAFVR.

The airmen listed above were in Liberator GR.8 - KN760 - 159 Sqdn, all rest in Rangoon War Cemetery, Myanmar. Three other servicemen were also aboard, they were - Major James Hord WHITAKER, Lt. Robert James DURHAM and Lance Niak ABDUL RAZAK.

Alex

malcolm_raf
3rd June 2017, 10:13
Hi

WAAF
UK
SAVAGE, Phyllis May - LACW - registered in Newbury.

GERMANY
JOHNSTON, William Kerr - Cpl - 74 MT LRU.

UK
GORRIE, Alexander Henderson - F/Sgt - shown as 27 Mar on CWGC, see previous thread.

Malcolm

wwrsimon
3rd June 2017, 10:51
Alex/Malcolm

GERMANY
JOHNSTON, William Kerr - Cpl - 544269 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at Bergholstein, Germany.

UK
GORRIE, Alexander Henderson - F/Sgt - 1520954 - the Statutory Deaths Register on the Scotland's People website records that he did indeed die on March 28th 1946, at 1.45 a.m. in Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride, due to Pulmonary TB.

Regards

Simon

jonheyworth
24th February 2021, 14:52
Louis Demsteader 1492099, watched to number 1 PHU, he died at 13 Hibbert Crescent, Manchester, of pulmonary tuberculosis and heamopytis

jonheyworth
19th July 2021, 21:53
William Kerr Johnson 544269 , was killed in a road accident near Bergholstern

jonheyworth
30th August 2022, 20:49
Pithyou Zaia X/118 , attached to the Levy Parachute Company was killed in a MT Accident on the Baghdad to Haifa Road near Rutbah