460622 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 22-06-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460622 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 22-06-1946

from Henk's List -

WAAF
SOUTH AFRICA
LUDDITT, Muriel - Air Sergeant - F/267256 - Woman's Auxiliary Air Force(SAAF) - Port Elizabeth ( South End ) Cemetery, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

GREECE
CHURCH, Reginald Lionel - F/Sgt(Pilot) - 1584051 - RAFVR - 252 Sqdn - Phaleron War Cemetery, Greece.
EDMEADS, John William - Sgt - 6354062 - 1sr Battalion The Middlesex Regiment - Brookwood 1939 - 1945 Memorial, Surrey.
Both were in Beaufighter TF.10 - NT989 - 252 Sqdn when it hit the sea while low flying and lost it's tail, crashed into the sea in the Gulf of Corinth off Derveni. Sgt Edmeads ( passenger ) was never found.

ITALY
PICKERS, Henry John Charles - Cpl - 1219803 - RAFVR - Udine War Cemetery, Italy.

UK
ALEXANDER, Joseph - LAC - 1525028 - RAFVR - Salford ( Agecroft ) Cemetery, Lancashire.
LANGDILL, Bernard James - AC1c - 1658319 - RAFVR - Stoke-On-Trent ( Longton ) Cemetery, Staffordshire.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

MYANMAR
KNIGHT, Robert - Sgt - 1095216 - RAFVR - Rangoon War Cemetery, Myanmar.

SINGAPORE
ALLARD, William Stanley - F/O - 186359 - RAFVR.
CROSBIE, Leonard John - GRP/Capt - 29064 - RAF - 353 Sqdn.
STURT, Donald Ian Paul - F/O - 201103 - RAFVR - 353 Sqdn.
The three airmen named above were crew of Expediter C1 - KG479 - ACSEA, CS.

Alex

[wwrsimon]

Alex

ITALY
PICKERS, Henry John Charles - Cpl - 1219803 - Campo Formido

UK
ALEXANDER, Joseph - LAC - 1525028 - two possibles (?) registered June 1946 are one aged 26, registered Bournemouth, and the other aged 52, registered Stafford.

LANGDILL, Bernard James - AC1c - 1658319 - registered Stoke-on-Trent.

MYANMAR
KNIGHT, Robert - Sgt - 1095216 - AHQ Burma.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Robert Knight 1092516 was killed at AHQ Burma in an off duty accident when he was electrocuted in the showers

[jonheyworth]

Henry John Charles Pickers 1219803 , attached to Campoformido , was killed in a railway accident whilst off duty in Udine being dead on arrival at Number 83 General hospital

[jonheyworth]

Joseph Alexander 1525028 | attached to RAF Holmsley South | was killed on the Southampton to Bournmouth Road near Holmsley Railway station in a collision between his bicycle and a private car

[jonheyworth]

Bernard James Landgill 1658319 | a medically discharged Airman at the time of his death, had been admitted dangerously ill to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, on 18 August 1944. Medically discharged from the RAF, he died of a perforated duodenal ulcer