460719 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 19-07-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460719 - Unaccounted Airwoman & Airmen - 19-07-1946

From Henk's List -

WAAF
UK
HOBBY, Edith Kathleen - Sgt - 883854 - WAAF.
Cove ( St. John ) Churchyard, Hampshire.

GERMANY
BENNETT, Gordon William - LAC - 1491042 - RAFVR.
Hanover War Cemetery, Niedersachsen, Germany.
COOK, James - LAC - 1552924 - RAFVR - 2765 Sqdn, RAF Regiment, RAF.
Hamburg Cemetery, Hamburg, Germany.

SOUTH AFRICA
PORTER, J. E. G. - Air Mechanic - 327778V - SAAF.
Durban ( Stellawood ) Cemetery, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa.

UK
CLARKE, John - LAC - 1514630 - RAFVR.
Shirebrook Cemetery, Derbyshire.
PEARSON, Randolph Brougham - Lt/CDR(A) - 728 Sqdn FAA - Royal Navy - MiD - HMS Daedalus.
Durrington Cemetery, Wiltshire - [ Sea Otter II - AAEE - RD969 ].
THOMPSON, Ian McLaren - AC2c - 1823495 - RAFVR.
Perth ( Wellshill ) Cemetery, Perthshire.
TINKLER, Francis James - LAC - 1017653 - RAFVR.
Wallsend ( Church Bank ) Cemetery, Northumberland.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

AUSTRALIA
SNOOK, Keith Charles - F/Sgt - 30210 - RAAF.
Carr Villa General Cemetery, Tasmania, Australia.

Alex

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

AUSTRALIA.

30210 F/Sgt Keith Charles SNOOK RAAF.

30210 F/Sgt Keith Charles SNOOK RAAF (of Care & Maintenance Unit, Darwin), was admitted to the Launceston General Hospital. Tasmania, on 1 July, 1946, to undergo a Hernia operation. On 4 July, due to an Intestinal Obstruction, a second operation was carried out. F/Sgt Snook's condition gradually deteriorated and he died on the 19 July, 1946. Cause of death was given as: Paralytic Ilens, Intestional Obstruction and Broncho-pneumonia.

Col.

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

GERMANY
BENNETT, Gordon William - LAC - 8501 Air Disarmament Wing
COOK, James - LAC - killed in a lorry en-route from Uetersen to Hamburg

UK
HOBBY, Edith Kathleen - Sgt - registered in Aldershot
CLARKE, John - LAC - registered in Cheadle (39) or Chippenham (41).
THOMPSON, Ian McLaren - AC2 - not Eng/Wales?
TINKLER, Francis James - LAC - not Eng/Wales?

Malcolm

[wwrsimon]

Alex/Malcolm

THOMPSON, Ian McLaren - AC2c - 1823495 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at Bridge of Earn.

TINKLER, Francis James - LAC - 1017653 - registered Northumberland South.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Edith kathleen Hobby 883854 , an equipment assistant attached to Number 31 WAAF Recruits Centre , died at home at Cove Road, Cove , Hampshire , of cachexia due to generalised carcinomatosis due to epithalioma of the vulva, with her father, Mr. C A Hobby present .

[jonheyworth]

Gordon William Bennett 1491042 , was fatally injured in a MT accident in Hannover at 09:30 Hours

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

COOK, James - LAC - killed in a lorry en-route from Uetersen to Hamburg

Revised entry as follows: -

He was serving with No 2765 Sqn, RAF Regiment and died in No 67 British Military Hospital from injuries sustained in a road traffic accident 4 miles from Kiel, on the Kiel – Econforde road when the motor cycle he was riding was in collision with a United States truck on 16 July.

Source AHB

Malcolm