460522 - Unaccounted Airmen - 22-05-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460522 - Unaccounted Airmen - 22-05-1946

From Henk's List -

CANADA
MARCEAU, Joseph Donat Jacques Roger - LAC - R/206924 - RCAF - Quebec City ( St. Charles ) Cemetery, Quebec, Canada.

EGYPT
HOLLYHEAD, Kenneth Roy - AC2c - 2258000 - RAFVR - Heliopolis War Cemetery, Egypt.

UK
EDWARDS, Vincent Graham Standish - AC2c - 2288120 - RAFVR - Liverpool ( Yew Tree ) Roman Catholic Cemetery, Lancashire.
JENKINS, Leslie - F/Sgt - 1850990 - RAFVR - Merthyr Tydfil ( FFRWD ) Cemetery, Penderyn, Glamorganshire.
PETTIT, Charles Henry - F/Lt - 171788 - RAFVR - 35 Sqdn - Southend-On-Sea ( Sutton Road ) Cemetery, Essex.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

AUSTRALIA
MEHARRY, John Scott - F/O - 73116 - RAAF - Perth War Cemetery and Annex, Western Australia, Australia.
RYAN, Arthur Francis - Cpl - 57954 - RAAF - Springvale Crematorium, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

GERMANY
LEWIN, Leslie Thomas - Sgt - 2202089 - RAFVR - Munster Heath War Cemetery, Nordrheim-Westfalen, Germany.

INDIA
BHUDEO, Singh - Enrolled Follower - 60969 - RIAF - Delhi/Karachi 1939-1945 War Memorials, India.
IDRIAN, Ryszard - F/O - P/784079 - PAF - Delhi War Cemetery, India.

Alex

[alieneyes]

CANADA
MARCEAU, Joseph Donat Jacques Roger

Vehicle accident 4 miles E of Summit Lake, BC.

[wwrsimon]

Alex

EGYPT
HOLLYHEAD, Kenneth Roy - AC2c - 2258000 - G.R.O. list has "Cairo West."

UK
EDWARDS, Vincent Graham Standish - AC2c - 2288120 - aged 18, registered Liverpool

JENKINS, Leslie - F/Sgt - 1850990 - the Bury Free Press of May 31st 1946 reported the following:

Cyclist, Glad to be Alive, Killed in Night Accident
"It appears that on this night these young men had been a little excited and glad to be alive, and, perhaps, were not taking the care that ordinary prudent persons would have been taking," commented the Diss and District Coroner (Mr. W. C. F. Blundell), when, at an inquest at Thetford in Friday, he returned a verdict of "Death by Misadventure" on Flight-Sergt. Leslie Jenkins, R.A.F., stationed at Honington, whose home address is at Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan.
Jenkins was one of a party of cyclists returning to Honington on Wednesday and he was in collision with a motor van near Thetford. Sergt. Raymond William Thatcher releated how deceased was cycling back to Honington with other airmen, after having had a drink or two in Thetford. "I was riding about 100 yards behind Jenkins when I called to him to get to the correct side of the road. Shortly afterwards I saw an approaching vehicle and when I next saw Jenkins he was lying across the middle of the road," witness said.
The driver of the van, Edwards Joseph Sargeant, of Highbury, said he saw a number of lights, and came to the conclusion that it was a bunch of cyclists, whose road conduct did not appear to be at all good. Witness considered that the deceased was pulling out to pass the other cyclists when the accident occurred, and his head must have struck the off-side of his van.

PETTIT, Charles Henry - F/Lt - 171788 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at Southend Municipal Hospital.

GERMANY
LEWIN, Leslie Thomas - Sgt - 2202089 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at Munster. The G.R.O. list has his unit as HQ (U) 85 Grp.

Regards

Simon

[COL BRUGGY]

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AUSTRALIA.

73116 F/O John Scott MEHARRY RAAF.

73116 F/O John "Jack" Scott MEHARRY (of No.5 Personnel Depot, Perth), died on 22 May, 1946, of an unspecified illness at the Hollywood Military Hospital, Perth. Meharry was a radar specialist, he commanded the following units:

35 Radar Station - 30-6-1944 (P/O).
301 Radar Station - 28-8-1945 (F/O).
32 Radar Station - 24-1-1946 (F/O).

Col.

[COL BRUGGY]

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AUSTRALIA.

57954 Cpl Arthur Francis RYAN RAAF.

57954 Cpl Arthur Francis RYAN RAAF (ex-No.5 Mobile Works Squadron, Noemfoor), was no longer a serving member of the RAAF at the time of his death, having been discharged on 23 October, 1944. He died of an unspecified illness in the Mt. St. Evins Hospital, Melbourne, on 22 May, 1946.

Col.

[jonheyworth]

Leslie Thomas Lewin 2202089 , died of injuries sustained in a road accident

[jonheyworth]

Reginald John Leavy 1037786 , attached to RAF New Delhi was admitted dangerously ill to the British military hospital, Delhi on 3 January , where he died of smallpox

[jonheyworth]

Vincent Graham Standish Edwards 2288120 | attached to Number 16 Wing | was admitted seriously ill to the Royal Naval hospital, Chatham, on 2 May. He was transferred to RAF hospital, West Kirby on 7 May and then transferred to his home address at Menlove Avenue, Liverpool 18, on 12 May, where he died of acute leukaemia