460410 - Unaccounted Airmen - 10-04-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460410 - Unaccounted Airmen - 10-04-1946

From Henk's List -

CANADA
HEEMBROCK, Joseph John - LAC - R/167768 - RCAF - Creston Pioneer Cemetery, British Columbia, Canada.

ITALY
JONES, Owen Hagan Ellis - F/Lt(Pilot) - 122023 - RAFVR - 92 Sqdn - D.F.C - Padua War Cemetery, Italy - [ Spitfire LF.8 - JF964 - 92 Sqdn ].

UK
FRASER, William John - LAC - 1551463 - RAFVR - Alness Parish Churchyard, Ross and Cromarty.
TOMLINSON, Richard - Air Mechanic(L)1c - L/FX.681703 - HMS Ariel - RN - West Parley (All Saints ) Churchyard, Dorset.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

AUSTRALIA
WALLACE, Alexander - W/O - 38939 - RAAF - Perth War Cemetery Annex, Western Australia, Australia.

UK
BIRD, Ronald Arthur - Act/Lt/CDR - D.S.C & Bar - HMS Gannet - Lee-On-Solent Memorial, Hampshire - [ Seafire III - RX350 - 794 Sqdn ].

Also lost this day was Wellington GR.13 - MF188 - 13(H) Squadron off the Greek coast.
The following airmen are named in "Final Landings",
F/Lt. M. TASILIVAKOS
P/O. P. CANNAS
Six other Royal Greek Air Force personnel were also killed.

Details can be found in the link below, but the names given are for either six or eight airmen ( one has photos of the 8 airmen ) and the names as given above are spelt differently.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=27902

Alex

[alieneyes]

CANADA
HEEMBROCK, Joseph John - LAC - R/167768 - RCAF

Deceased pulmonary tuberculosis, Tranquille Sanatorium, Kamloops, BC.

[wwrsimon]

Alex

UK
FRASER, William John - LAC - 1551463 - the Statutory Deaths Register on the Scotland's People website records that he died at 9.00 a.m. at the Royal Naval Hospital, Invergordon, due to acute appendicitis, peritonitis and bronchio pneumonia.

TOMLINSON, Richard - Air Mechanic (L)1c - L/FX.681703 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at Woodside, Dudsbury, West Parley, Wimborne, Dorset.

Regards

Simon

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

AUSTRALIA.

38939 W/O Alexander WALLACE RAAF.

38939 W/O Alexander WALLACE RAAF (of No.5 Personnel Depot, Perth), died on 10 March, 1946 in 110th (Perth) Australian Military Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, of an unspecified illness.

Col.

[jonheyworth]

William John Fraser 1551463 , attached to 4 (C) OTU, was admitted dangerously ill to the RN hospital at Invergordon on 23 March, suffering with acute abdominal distension, where he died of acute peritonitis, appendicitis and pneumonia.

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