460629 - Unaccounted Airmen - 29-06-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460629 - Unaccounted Airmen - 29-06-1946

From Henk's List -

UK
GODDARD, William Edward - W/O - 577 - RAF - Cove ( St. John ) Churchyard, Hampshire.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

INDIA
AVERY, George - AC2c - 2269956 - RAFVR - Kirkee War Cemetery, India.

UK
BARRINGTON, Henry Herbert - Cpl - 3062924 - RAFVR.
BRADLEY, Peter William - Cpl - 1874335 - RAFVR.
CROSS, Ivor John May - Sgt - 1609666 - RAFVR - 48 Sqdn.
HARE, James William - Cpl - 1141800 - RAFVR.
HARRISON, Reginald Sydney - F/Sgt - 1815501 - RAFVR - 48 Sqdn.
LEVENSTON, Louis Soloman - Cpl - 1905285 - RAFVR.
MORGAN, Dennis Edwards - Cpl - 2216911 - RAFVR.
MULLUCKS, Victor William - F/Sgt - 1894841 - RAFVR - 48 Sqdn.
NEEDHAM, Arthur - Cpl - 1540712 - RAFVR.
SPENCER, James Wrightson - F/O - 58390 RAF - 48 Sqdn.
STRONACH, William - Cpl - 1495445 - RAFVR.
SUTTON, William Robert - Cpl - 2269585 - RAFVR.
TILBURY, Donald George - W/O - 1802461 - RAFVR - 48 Sqdn.
WRIGHT, Lawrence Stratton - Cpl - 2269623 - RAFVR.
The fourteen airmen named above are all remembered on the Singapore Memorial, Singapore.
"Final Landings" , page 172 has thirteen names + 4.
I believe that Morgan is one of the "+4".
All were aboard Dakota IV - KJ918 of 48 Sqdn.

Alex

[wwrsimon]

Alex

UK
GODDARD, William Edward - W/O - 577 - the CWGV entry states that he served under the name Pickett, and FreeBMD has William E. Pickett, aged 56, registered Aldershot, September 1946.

INDIA
AVERY, George - AC2c - 2269956 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at the British Military Hospital, Colaba, Bombay.

With regards to Dakota IV - KJ918 of 48 Sqdn, the Yorkshire Post of July 11th 1946 reported the following:

18 MISSING ON BURMA FLIGHT
Silence Since June 29
The Air Ministry announced last night that a Dakota of Air Command South East Asia had been missing since June 29 on a flight from Butterworth (Malaya) to Rangoon.
The occupants were:
Passengers:
L/Cpl. R. Plumridge, Royal West Kents
L/Cpl. G. T Braund, Royal West Kents
Pte. Hamon, West Yorkshires
Subader Mahd Quasim, Indian Army
Cpl. L. S. Levenston, R.A.F.
Cpl. A. Needham, R.A.F.
Cpl. W. R. Sutton, R.A.F.
Cpl. P. W. Bradley, R.A.F.
Cpl. L. S. Wright, R.A.F.
Cpl. J. W. Hare, R.A.F.
Cpl. W. Stronach, R.A.F.
Cpl. D. E. Morgan, R.A.F.
Cpl. H. H. Barrington, R.A.F.
Crew:
W/O J. W. Spencer, R.A.F. (pilot)
F/Sgt. D. G. Tilbury (co-pilot)
F/Sgt. R. S. Harrison, R.A.F. (navigator)
F/Sgt. V. W. A. Mullucks, R.A.F. (wireless operator)
Sgt. I. J. Cross, R.A.F.
The next of kin have been informed.

So, it's 14 names plus 4.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

George Avery 2269956, attached to 48 Squadron, died in the British Military hospital, Colaba, of a cereberal tumour

[jonheyworth]

William Edward Goddard 577 | attached to Number 102 PDC | died at Cove Road, Farnborough, of occlusion of the left coronary artery atheroma