460806 - Unaccounted Airmen - 06-08-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460806 - Unaccounted Airmen - 06-08-1946

From Henk's List -

EGYPT
BLAKE, Henry Thomas - LAC - 2233228 - RAFVR.
Fayid War Cemetery, Egypt.

ISRAEL & PALESTINE
EDMONDSON, William Ronald - AC2c - 2252523 - RAFVR.
Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel & Palestine ( including Gaza ).

UK
ADAM, William Caldow - F/O - 202663 - RAFVR.
Glasgow Crematorium, Glasgow.
BELL, John - F/Lt - 118218 - RAF Regiment, RAFVR.
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, ( West Road ) Crematorium, Northumberland.
CARRUTHERS, James William - AC2c - 2302691 - RAFVR.
Blackburn Cemetery, Lancashire.
COWAN, Charles - LAC - 1573654 - RAFVR.
Glasgow ( Lambhill ) Cemetery, Glasgow.
PALMER, Joseph Edward - AC2c - 3086393 - RAFVR.
Croyden ( Mitcham Road ) Cemetery, Surrey.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

CANADA
MOREAU, Theodore Joseph - LAC - R/200111 - RCAF.
Rouyn-Noranda Cimitiere St. Michel, Quebec, Canada.

Alex

[alieneyes]

CANADA
MOREAU, Theodore Joseph - LAC - R/200111 - RCAF.
Rouyn-Noranda Cimitiere St. Michel, Quebec, Canada.

Drowned at Rib Lake, Ontario, while on leave just prior to discharge.

Dave

[wwrsimon]

Alex

EGYPT
BLAKE, Henry Thomas - LAC - 2233228 - 10 M.T.R.U.

ISRAEL & PALESTINE
EDMONDSON, William Ronald - AC2c - 2252523 - A.H.Q. (U) Levant

UK
ADAM, William Caldow - F/O - 202663 - the Statutory Deaths Register on the Scotland's People website records that he died at 6.15 a.m. at the Royal Infirmary, Perth, due to a fractured skull the result of a motor vehicle accident.

BELL, John - F/Lt - 118218 - the Lincolnshire Echo of August 19th 1946 reported the following:

Inquest on Airman: “Perfectly Sober”
Reference to “evilly disposed persons who might say that because a man had been on licensed premises he had had too much to drink,: was made by the Sleaford District Coroner (Mr. E. C. Deal) at the inquest on Flight-Lieut. John Bell (42), R.A.F. regiment, who died at Raunceby R.A.F. Hospital on August 6.
Four days previously Bell, whose home is in Douglas, IOM, was found lying unconscious on the camp road at Folkingham with his cycle lying on top of him.
Recording a verdict of “Misadventure” the Coroner said: “On the evidence before me I find that this man was perfectly sober and capable of riding his cycle safely. I find that as a fact because I have no doubt there are evilly opposed persons who might suggest that because he had been in a licensed premises he had had too much to drink.”
…He said that there was no reason to accept any suggestion that he was riding too fast.

CARRUTHERS, James William - AC2c - 2302691 - registered Blackburn

COWAN, Charles - LAC - 1573654 - the Statutory Deaths Register on the Scotland's People website records that he died at 2.40 p.m. at Mearnskirk Hospital due to pulmonary TB.

PALMER, Joseph Edward - AC2c - 3086393 - registered Croydon.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

William Ronald Edmondson 2252523 , attached to AHQ Levant, died in an off duty swimming accident at Bat Yam, Jaffa at 12:00 hours

[jonheyworth]

Henry Thomas Blake 2233228 , died of typhoid after being treated in SSQ for 5 days for diarrhea

[jonheyworth]

James William Carruthers 2302691 , attached to TTC at RAF St.Athan, died at home in Cambridge Street, Blackburn Lancs with his wife, Mrs. J.A. Carruthers present. A post mortem found he had died of pneumonia

[jonheyworth]

Joseph Edward Palmer 3086393 | Attached to Number 3 Recruits Centre | died in the Mayday hospital, Thornton Heath, Surrey, of appendicitis,