460510 - Unaccounted Airwomen & Airmen - 10-05-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460510 - Unaccounted Airwomen & Airmen - 10-05-1946

From Henk's List -

WAAF
UK
GRIFFITHS, Delmar - LACW - 491062 - WAAF - Cardiff ( Cathay's ) Cemetery, Glamorganshire.
MUNNS, Winifred Margot - LACW - 473659 - WAAF - Knighton ( St. Mary Magdalene ) Churchyard, Leicestershire.

UK
BARROW, Tom - Sgt - 1068471 - RAFVR - Manchester Crematorium, Lancashire.
JONES, David Robert - W/O(WoP/AG) - 1076904 - RAFVR - Rhyl Town Cemetery, Flintshire - [ Halifax VII PP349 - 1665 HCU ].
NIXON, Robert Gordon - LAC - 976255 - RAFVR - Nottingham Southern Cemetery, Nottinghamshire.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

AUSTRALIA
EYRE, Isadore Leslie - Sgt - 3150 - RAAF - Macquarie Park Cemetery & Crematorium, New South Wales, Australia.

INDIA
DAVEY, John Arthur - W/O - 358239 - RAF - Calcutta ( Bhowanipore ) Cemetery, Kolkata, India.
VENKATARAMAN, Srini Purushotam - LAC - 274521 - RIAF - Delhi/Karachi 1939-1945 War Memorials, India.

UK
BENOIT, Andreas - GAF - Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery, Staffordshire.
The six airmen listed below along with W/O. D.R.JONES (listed above) were in Halifax VII - PP349 - 1665 HCU.
FOX, Sonny - F/Sgt - 1893152 - RAFVR - East Ham ( Marlow Road ) Jewish Cemetery, Essex.
HARVEY, William Ian - F/O(Flt/Engr) - 176669 - RAFVR - Markinch ( St. Drostan's ) Cemetery, Fifeshire.
PRITCHARD, Glyndwr - LAC - 1653762 - RAFVR - Merthyr Tydfil ( Pant ) Cemetery, Glamorganshire.
SHARLING, Hampton - LAC - 1500420 - RAFVR - Childwall ( All Saints ) Churchyard, Lancashire.
SIMPSON, John Charles - LAC - 1530898 - RAFVR - Newark-Upon-Trent Cemetery Nottinghamshire.
STAMMERS, Kenneth Searby - Sqdn/Ldr(Pilot) - 65989 - RAF - DFC/AFC/DFM - Harrogate ( Stonefall ) Arm, Yorkshire.

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

AUSTRALIA.

3150 Sgt Isidore (not Isadore) Leslie EYRE RAAF.

3150 Sgt Isidore Leslie EYRE RAAF (ex-No.2 Aircraft Depot, Richmond, NSW), was officially discharged from the RAAF on 15 January, 1942. He died of an unspecified illness in the 2/11th Australian General Hospital, Merrylands, NSW, on 10 May, 1946.

Col.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

UK
GRIFFITHS, Delmar - LACW - not Eng/Wales?.
MUNNS, Winifred Margot - LACW - registered in Leicester.
BARROW, Tom - Sgt - registered in Macclesfield.
NIXON, Robert Gordon - LAC - registered in Nottingham.

INDIA
DAVEY, John Arthur - W/O - 5 BSD

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

Alex/Malcolm

UK
GRIFFITHS, Delmar - LACW - 491062 - on FreeBMD she's under Delma Griffiths, registered in September 1946 at Wharfedale. The National Probate Calendar records the following:

GRIFFITHS, Delma of 7 Colum Road Cardiff, spinster, died 10 May 1946 at Eliot Grove, Guiseley, Aireborough, Yorkshire.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Delmar Griffiths 491062, a medically discharged airwoman, died at 15 Eliot Grove, Guisley, of cystis and chronic inflammation of the right kidney and adrenal body

[jonheyworth]

Winifred Margot Munns 473659 , a telephonist attached to Number 105 PDC, committed suicide by hanging at her home address , Beresford Drive, Leicester East. She had been due for release from the WAAF on 2 July

[jonheyworth]

John Arthur Davey 358239 , died whilst driving an RAF vehicle when it was involved in an accident in Calcutta

[jonheyworth]

Robert Gordon Nixon 976255 | was admitted dangerously ill to Number 35 British General hospital in Colombo on 13 October 1942. Seriously Ill on 18 November. He was evacuated to the U.K on December and medically discharged, dying of a cerebral tumour