460511 - Unaccounted Airmen - 11-05-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460511 - Unaccounted Airmen - 11-05-1946

From Henk's List -

UK
DANIELSON, Alexander John Scott - AC2c - 1370703 - RAFVR - Yell ( West Sandwich ) Cemetery, Shetland.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

INDIA
DUBESH, Chandra Chakravarti - LAC - 40973 - RIAF - Delhi/Karachi 1939-1945 War Memorials, India.

UK
GOODMAN, Ernest Christopher - W/O - 1219647 - RAFVR - Fakenham Cemetery, Norfolk.
WILLIAMS, Arthur George - F/Lt(Pilot) - 45986 - RAF - D.F.C - Coedffranc Cemetery, Glamorganshire.
The two airmen listed above were crew in Mosquito III - LR565 - 13 OTU.

Alex

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

UK
DANIELSON, Alexander John Scott - AC2 - not Eng/Wales?.

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

Alex

UK
DANIELSON, Alexander John Scott - AC2c - 1370703 - the death announcement in The Scotsman on May 13th 1946 recorded that he died at 138 North Saughton Road, Edinburgh. His entry on the Scotland's People website records that he died as the result if Pulmonary TB.

UK
GOODMAN, Ernest Christopher - W/O - 1219647
WILLIAMS, Arthur George - F/Lt(Pilot) - 45986

The Sunderland Echo of May 18th 1946 reported the following:
"BAD DAY FOR FLYING"
Mosquito Crew Died Accidentally
"Accidentally killed while on duty with the R.A.F." was the verdict of Coroner T. V. Devey at an inquest at the Police Station, Thornley, last night, on the two aircrew who were killed in the plane crash near Thornley last Saturday.
The men were Flight-Lieut. Arthur George Williams (26), of Highbury, Crymlyn Road, Skewen, Glamorgan, and Warrant Officer Ernest Christopher Goodman (22), of Abbey Farm, Kenton, near Fakenham, Norfolk.
It was a rather bad day for flying, with mist and low clouds.
David Thomas Griffiths, of Thornlaw, Thornley, a miner, said he was walking along the road from Trimdon to Thornley, and heard an aeroplane.
As the sound of the plane came nearer the engine seemd to be missing fire. He next saw the plane coming down in a nose dive. It plunged nose first into a field about 50 yards from where he was standing, and on striking the ground, exploded and burst into flames.

Regards

Simon