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Alex Smart
3rd March 2018, 23:53
Hello,

460815 - Unaccounted Airmen - 15-08-1946

From Henk's List -

UK
FREEMAN, Ernest Charles - Sgt - 1203634 - RAFVR.
Long Eaton Cemetery, Derbyshire.
PEARD, Eric Lewis - Cpl - 1461915 - RAFVR.
Golders Green Crematorium, Middlesex.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

GAMBIA
KNOX, Thomas Edward Chambers - LAC - 536623 - RAF.
Fajara War Cemetery, Gambia.

Alex
malcolm_raf
4th March 2018, 10:11
Hi

UK
FREEMAN, Ernest Charles - Sgt - registered in Barnet
PEARD, Eric Lewis - Cpl - registered in Barnet

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

GAMBIA
KNOX, Thomas Edward Chambers - LAC - RAF Yungun

Malcolm
Lyffe
4th March 2018, 10:46
Re Knox:

I think you mean Yundum, Malcolm, now known as Banjul International Airport.

Brian
wwrsimon
4th March 2018, 11:00
Alex, and Malcolm

UK
FREEMAN, Ernest Charles - Sgt - 1203634 - not sure about Barnet - perhaps a typo Malcolm? FreeBMD has Ernest C. Freeman, aged 39, death registered at Barnstaple. The National Probate Calendar records that he died at Grangewood, Torrs Park, Ilfracombe.

PEARD, Eric Lewis - Cpl - 1461915 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at Wellhouse Hospital, Barnet.

GAMBIA
KNOX, Thomas Edward Chambers - LAC - 536623 - the National Probate Calendar records that he died at Tundum, Bathurst, Gambia, and also records his third Christian name as Charles, rather than Chambers.

Regards

Simon
Lyffe
4th March 2018, 11:54
Having searched the Internet I'm reasonably sure there is no such place as Tundum, Simon. I suggest the 'T' of Tundum is a typo for the 'Y' of Yundum - the two letters are next to each other on the QWERTY keyboard.

Brian
wwrsimon
4th March 2018, 12:01
Fair point Brian, thanks. As I mentioned in my post, the NPC entry also got his third name wrong - perhaps when it was typed/typset the original source's handwriting wasn't the most legible.

Regards

Simon
malcolm_raf
4th March 2018, 19:03
I just repeated what was in the GRO list, I should have realised at the time it was wrong, my apologies

I also should have written Barnstaple not Barnet, not having a good day today.

Malcolm
Alex Smart
5th March 2018, 02:02
Hello,
Regard to Charles or Chambers.
CWGC has -
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2626570/knox,-thomas-edward-chambers/

So will stick with Chambers for now.
Alex
jonheyworth
3rd June 2021, 17:28
Thomas Edward Chambers Knox 536623 , attached to RAF Yundum, died of asphyxia
jonheyworth
24th August 2023, 20:23
Eric Lewis Peard 1461915 | Attached to Number 14 SoTT | was dangerously injured in a motorcycle accident at 07:25 Hours on 12 August whilst returning to his unit from leave. He was admitted to the Well House hospital Barnett, where he died of his injuries at 06:25 Hours

Again Peard was accounted for in the database only by the location of his death