460416 - Unaccounted Airmen - 16-04-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460416 - Unaccounted Airmen - 16-04-1946

Henk's List -

UK
BAKER, Walter John - F/Lt(Pilot) - 171384 - RAFVR - 85 Sqdn - Guildford Cemetery, Surrey.
BRYAN, Cecil Charles - F/Sgt(Nav) - 1584148 - RAFVR - 85 Sqdn - Newark-Upon-Trent Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.
The two airmen listed above were both crew in Mosquito NF.36 - RL232 - 85 Sqdn.
DUCKWORTH, Jack - LAC - 1475700 - RAFVR - Great Harwood Cemetery, Lancashire.
PARKER, Reginald Edward - LAC - 1313629 - RAFVR - From ( Vallis Road ) Cemetery, Somerset.
SMOWTON, Henry Charles - W/O - 356007 - RAF - Ruislip ( St. Martin ) Churchyard Extension, Middlesex.

From CWGC and Geoff's Sites -

UK
HASSLER, Walter - GAF - Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery, Staffordshire.

Alex

[wwrsimon]

Alex

UK
BAKER, Walter John - F/Lt(Pilot) - 171384
BRYAN, Cecil Charles - F/Sgt(Nav) - 1584148

The Chichester Observer of April 20th 1946 reported the following:

FATAL PLANE CRASH
TWO R.A.F. CREW KILLED
Two R.A.F. men were killed in a Mosquito crash at Oving on Tuesday.
Deceased were F/Lt. Walter John Baker, of Weybridge, aged 23, and F/Sgt. Cecil Charles Brown [sic], of Newark, Notts, aged 22. The inquest was held at Chichester on Thursday.

DUCKWORTH, Jack - LAC - 1475700 - registered Haverdfordwest

PARKER, Reginald Edward - LAC - 1313629 - the Western Daily Press of April 27th 1946 reported the following:

MOTOR-CYCLIST'S DEATH
A verdict of "accidental death" was returned at the inquest at Bath yesterday on L.A.C. Reginald Edward Parker (24), R.A.F., of 8, Spring Roda, Frome, who died at St. Martin's Hospital, Bath, after a motor-cycle accident on the main bath road near Bradford-on-Avon, about midnight on April 16.

SMOWTON, Henry Charles - W/O - 356007 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at the R.A.F. Depot, Bentley Priory.

UK
HASSLER, Walther - GAF - registered Crewe.

Regards

Simon

[Martyn A Critchlow]

The Mosquito in which BAKER, Walter John - F/Lt(Pilot) - 171384 and BRYAN, Cecil Charles - F/Sgt(Nav) - 1584148 were killed was RL232.

Martyn

[jonheyworth]

Jack Duckworth 1475700 , attached to RAF Pembroke Dock, died at 23:00 Hours in the County Hospital Haverfordwest, of peritonitis following a perforated appendix

[jonheyworth]

Henry Charles Smowton 356007 | attached to HQ Fighter Command | Died at 12:50 Hours at SSQ at Stanmore Park of a coronary thrombosis