460626 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 26-06-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460626 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 26-06-1946

From Henk's List -

WAAF
SOUTH AFRICA
HUNT, Elizabeth H - Air Cpl ( Miss) - F/267090 - Woman's Auxiliary Air Force - SAAF - East London ( East Bank ) Cemetery, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
However it would seem that Henk's had the wrong date, CWGC has this Airwoman's death, sans the initial "H", as the 28th.

ITALY
KING, George James - Sqdn/Ldr(Pilot) - 136540 - RAFVR - D.F.C - 87 Sqdn - Padua War Cemetery, Italy - [ Spitfire IX - RR241 - 87 Sqdn ].

SOUTH AFRICA
HECKLES, A - Air Sgt - 327394 - SAAF - Johannesburg ( West Park ) Crematorium Memorial, Gauteng, South Africa.

UK
GRAY, Kenneth - LAC - 1800238 - RAFVR - Caister Old Cemetery, Norfolk.
SHELTON, William Henry - Cpl - 24792 - RAF - Edinburgh ( Liberton ) Cemetery, Edinburgh.

From CWGC & Geoff's Site's -

INDIA
ROSE, Gerald Bertram - LAC - 3044626 - RAFVR - Delhi War Cemetery, India.

Alex

[wwrsimon]

Alex

ITALY
KING, George James - Sqdn/Ldr(Pilot) - 136540 - RAFVR - D.F.C. - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at No. 22 British General Hospital, Mestre, Italy.

UK
GRAY, Kenneth - LAC - 1800238 - possibly registered Westminster.

SHELTON, William Henry - Cpl - 24792 - the Statutory Deaths Register on the Scotland's People website records that he died at 11.30 p.m. at 12, Grange Loan, Edinburgh, due to arterio sclerosis and coronary thrombosis.

INDIA
ROSE, Gerald Bertram - LAC - 3044626 - AHQ India

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Gerald Bertram Rose 3044626 , attached to AHQ India, died in SSQ at Delhi of heatstroke

[jonheyworth]

Kenneth Gray 1800238 | attached to RAF Lindholme | was admitted dangerously ill to the Westminster hospital, London SW1 at 10:00 Hours on 27 March. He underwent an amputation of his left arm for a sarcoma of the left humerus. He was removed from the dangerously ill list on 3 April, but became seriously ill on 6 June and dangerously ill on the 25 June, dying the following day of metastasis