460718 - Unaccounted Airmen - 18-07-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460718 - Unaccounted Airmen - 18-07-1946

From Henk's List -

UK
BERRY, Stanley James - AC2c - 1851703 - RAFVR.
Exeter Higher Cemetery, Devon.
BURR, Harold - LAC - 1201657 - RAFVR.
Lane End ( Holy Trinity ) Churchyard, Buckinghamshire.
FRANKLAND, Percy - F/Lt(Pilot) - 176649 - RAFVR.
Hunningham ( St. Margaret ) Churchyard, Warwickshire.
[ See thread on this airman in the General Forum here - http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/showthread.php?22054-Percy-Frankland
].
HALL, John Marshall - Cpl - 1407516 - RAFVR.
Stithians Methodist Chapelyard, Cornwall.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

AUSTRALIA
CHESTER, Charles Whitley - Cpl - 3093 - RAAF.
Perth War Cemetery and Annex, Western Australia, Australia.
GINNS, Francis - LAC - 75213 - RAAF.
Southport Cemetery, Queensland, Australia.
POWEL, Ross Allan - LAC - 81826 - RAAF.
Perth War Cemetery and Annex, Western Australia, Australia.
TAPPING, Raymond Thomas - F/Sgt - 29489 - RAAF.
Perth War Cemetery and Annex, Western Australia, Australia.
WALL, Peter James - Cpl - 29351 - RAAF.
Perth War Cemetery, Western Australia, Australia.

UK
BRADLEY, Percy Frederick George - Gp/Capt(Pilot) - RAF.
Oxford ( Botley ) Cemetery, Oxfordshire.
[ Meteor F.4 - Glosters - EE538 ].

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

AUSTRALIA.

3093 Cpl Charles Whitley CHESTER RAAF
81826 LAC Ross Allan POWELL (not POWEL) RAAF
29489 F/Sgt Raymond Thomas TAPPING RAAF
29351 Peter James WALL RAAF

The above airmen were killed on 18 July, 1946, in a road accident on the Perth Road, about three miles from Pearce aerodrome. They were aboard a RAAF heavy truck which collided head-on with another RAAF heavy vehicle. The 13 airmen (and one WAAAF), were off to Perth to attend rehabilitation lectures as part of their pre-discharge training.

The casualties were:

Killed.
3093 Cpl Charles Whitley CHESTER RAAF
81826 LAC Ross Allan POWELL RAAF
29489 F/Sgt Raymond Thomas TAPPING RAAF
29351 Peter James WALL RAAF

Injured.
84748 LAC Peter Herbert HERKES RAAF
84203 LAC Dudley William LONG RAAF (Driver of the truck)
38607 LAC Christopher John MELDRUM RAAF
85139 LAC Harry Paterson RUSSELL RAAF
85117 LAC Robert Bernard SACHSE RAAF
252546 F/L Ross VOLLPRECHT RAAF

Uninjured.
4143 F/Sgt Frederick ATTWATER RAAF
29922 LAC Norman Leighton McALLISTER RAAF
4086 Sgt John Jean MOUNT RAAF
113366 ACW Eleanor Edith STEWART WAAAF

The driver of the other vehicle, 80076 Sgt Ronald Voltaire DUNS RAAF, escaped unscathed.

Col.

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

AUSTRALIA.

75213 LAC Francis GINNS RAAF.

75213 LAC Francis GINNS RAAF (ex-No.3 Central Recovery Depot, Amberley, Queensland), had been officially discharged from the RAAF on 14 December, 1945. Francis Ginns collapsed and died while walking along Scarborough Street, Southport, Queensland. He had been suffering from heart disease. Death was recorded as due to natural causes. Ginns was 47 years of age.

Col.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

UK
BERRY, Stanley James - AC2 - registered in Exeter
BURR, Harold - LAC - registered in Wycombe

HALL, John Marshall - Cpl - registered in Truro

Malcolm

[jonheyworth]

John Marshall Hall 1407516 , died whilst on demobilisation leave, in the Royal Cornwall infirmary, Truro, of a cereberal tumour

[jonheyworth]

Stanley James Berry 1851703 | had been admitted to RAF hospital, Padgate on 31 July 1943. Medically discharged, he died of Pleural effusion