460406 - Unaccounted Airmen - 06-04-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460406 - Unaccounted Airmen - 06-04-1946

From Henk's List -

GERMANY
MIRRLEES, William - Cpl - 617394 - RAF - Hamburg Cemetery, Germany.

NEW ZEALAND
FIFIELD, Maurice Frederick - F/Lt(Pilot) - 427494 - RNZAF - Geraldine Cemetery, Timaru District, New Zealand.

SOUTH AFRICA
DARVALL, Alfred - Leading Air Mechanic - 192521 - SAAF - Cape Town ( Maitland ) Cemetery, Western Cape, South Africa.

UK
COPE, Raymond - LAC - 1617202 - RAFVR - Beckenham Crematorium & Cemetery, Kent.
FREW, Henry Shanks Keith - LAC - 967656 - RAFVR - Edinburgh ( Warriston ) Crematorium, Edinburgh.

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

UK
SEMMELROTH, Erhard - GAF - Cannock Chase War Cemetery, Staffordshire.
SHARMAN, Paul Carol Blaise - W/O(Pilot) - 1512816 - RAFVR - 216 Sqdn - Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridgeshire.

Alex

[malcolm_raf]

Hi


GERMANY
MIRRLEES, William - Cpl - 124 Wing.

UK
COPE, Raymond - LAC - registered in Swindon (RAF Hospital, Wroughton?).
FREW, Henry Shanks Keith - LAC - not Eng/Wales?.

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

Alex/Malcolm

GERMANY
MIRRLEES, William - Cpl - 617394 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at 94 British General Hospital, B.A.O.R.

UK
COPE, Raymond - LAC - 1617202 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at St. Margaret's Hospital, Stratton St. Margaret's, near Swindon.

FREW, Henry Shanks Keith - LAC - 967656 - the Statutory Deaths Register on the Scotland's People website records that he died at 11.30 a.m. at Ivydene, Dunblane, due to cancer.

SHARMAN, Paul Carol Blaise - W/O(Pilot) - 1512816 - the National Probate Calendar records the following:

GABRIELSON Paul Carol Blaise Sharman or SHARMAN Paul Carol Blaise of Picton Hall, Buxton, died 26 April 1946 [note date] near Hindringham, Norfolk.

So, given the amended date, was he killed in Beaufighter TF.10 RD502 of 254 Sqn, stalled at low altitude on air test and dived into the ground, Hindringham, Norfolk - 2 killed (Broken Wings, Halley, page 39)...?

EDIT: and possibly the other casualty:

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2702558/CORDON,%20GRANVILLE%20TREVOR

SEMMELROTH, Erhard - GAF - the Lichfield Mercury of April 12th 1946 reported the following:

Lorry full of German prisoners overturns at Freeford
One killed and nineteen injured.
The over-turning of a lorry at Freeford on Wednesday of last week resulted in the death of a German prisoner of war and injuries to nineteen others. The deceased was Erhard Semmelroth, of Nuremburg, who died in the Burntwood Emergency on Saturday.
The Coroner said deceased was one of a working party of about twenty returning from Whittington Barracks to Teddesley in a motor lorry at 5.10pm the previous Wednesday. The vehicle was being driven by George Thomas Charles along the main road at Freeford, and when approaching a left hand bend he applied the foot brake. The lorry then rocked and turned over. The injured were taken to the Burntwood Emergency Hospital and detained. Deceased died on the following Saturday from a fractured base of the skull.

Regards

Simon

[malcolm_raf]

Sharman was in RD502 on 26 April.

Malcolm

[Alex Smart]

Hello Simon and Malcolm,
This is from CWGC -
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2651540/SHARMAN,%20PAUL%20CAROL%20BLAISE
Found by only entering the service number, so am at a loss on this one

And this by only entering the name Gabrielson -
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx?cpage=1
Alex

[wwrsimon]

Thanks Malcolm.

Alex, the CWGC website entry for him has April 6th, as does the scan of the Register, but the scan of the Graves Registration Report does indeed have April 26th:

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2651540/SHARMAN,%20PAUL%20CAROL%20BLAISE

Regards

Simon

[malcolm_raf]

I got the details from 'Final Landings' so the F1180 obviously also has 26 Apr, 6 Apr probably a typo in the register

He probably served as Sharman and dropped the Gabrielson.

Malcolm

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

NEW ZEALAND.

NZ427494 F/L Maurice Frederick FIFIELD RNZAF.

Sat 6 Apr 1946
Shooting accident.
Southern Non-effective Pool, RNZAF
Accidentally shot himself in the forehead while climbing over a gate when rabbit shooting in the evening at Te Moana, near Geraldine, where he is buried.

Pilot: NZ427494 Flt Lt Maurice Frederick FIFIELD, RNZAF - Age 25. 650hrs.

Fifield had flown 35 hours on ops with 12 Sqn RAF, but the number of sorties is unknown.

See:FYT2/Martyn/p.369 & Biography, FYT3/Martyn/p.190.

Col.

[jonheyworth]

William Mirrlees 617394 , was seriously injured in a road accident at 21:45 Hours at 21:45 whilst off duty in Lubeck. He was admitted to Number 77 CCS at Lubeck and then transferred to Number 94 British General hospital in Hamburg where he died at 01:45 Hours of a Ruptured spleen, Fractured right femur and a haemo pneumothorax

[jonheyworth]

Raymond Cope 1717202 | attached to RAF Lynham | was seriously injured in a road accident on the Lynham to Swindon road when a heavy goods lorry collided with a car. Admitted to St.Margaret’s hospital , Stratton Street, Swindon. He died of his injuries T 13:45 Hours

Again Cope is already accounted on the forum solely by his location of death