460827 - Unaccounted Airmen - 27-08-1946

[Alex Smart]

Hello,

460827 - Unaccounted Airmen - 27-08-1946

From Henk's List -

EGYPT
COHEN, Sydney - W/O - 1383528 - RAFVR.
DENNANT, James Edward - Sqdn/Ldr - 40465 - RAF - D.S.O, D.F.C.
FOSTER, Kenneth John - F/Sgt - 1588928 - RAFVR.
KEIGHLEY, Donald - W/O - 1594593 - RAFVR.
The four airmen named above were crew in Warwick V - PN763 - 160 MU.
All are remembered on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt.
TOWER, John James - Sgt - 615143 - RAF.
Heliopolis War Cemetery, Egypt.

SOUTH AFRICA
HARRIES, N.A.R - Lt - 99576 - SAAF.
Pretoria ( Rebecca Street ) Cemetery, Gauteng, South Africa.

UK
BURGIS, Arthur Edwin - LAC - 1484855 - RAFVR.
Salisbury ( London Road ) Cemetery, Wiltshire.
JONES, Thomas John - LAC - 1314055 - RAFVR.
Mountain Ash ( Maesyrarian ) Cemetery, Glamorganshire.

From CWGC & Geoff's Sites -

INDIA
GOPI, Chand - Artificer 3rd Class - 3499 RIAF.
MUHAMMAD, Ali - LAC - 23083 - RIAF.
Both the above airmen are remembered on the Delhi/Karachi 1939-1945 War Memorials, India.

UK
BRIGHT, Tom - W/O - 1622303 - RAFVR.
Sheffield ( Abbey Lane ) Cemetery, Yorkshire.
RENNIE, Eric Henry - W/O - 1683282 - RAFVR.
Carlisle ( Uppeby ) Cemetery, Cumberland.
The two airmen named above were crew of Tiger Moth T.2 - DE921 - GTS.

Alex

[wwrsimon]

Alex

UK
BURGIS, Arthur Edwin - LAC - 1484855 - registered Salisbury. The Dover Express of August 22nd 1947 carried the follwing in the 'In Memoriam' section:

BURGIS - treasured memories of L.A.C. Arthur Burgis, R.A.F., who died Aug 27th 1946, on the eve of demobilisation.

JONES, Thomas John - LAC - 1314055 - registered Pontypridd.

Regards

Simon

[malcolm_raf]

Hi

EGYPT
TOWER, John James - Sgt - 615143 - RAF Cairo

Malcolm

[jonheyworth]

John James Tower 615143, attached to RAF Cairo, was dangerously injured on duty in an accident on the rifle range on 25 August at RAF Cairo West. Admitted to Number 5 RAF hospital, he died of a gunshot wound to the left chest

[jonheyworth]

Thomas John Jones 1314005 | a RAF pensioner at the time of his death, died at 14 Albany Street, Mountain Ash, of haemoptysis secondary to pulmonary tuberculosis

This information was obtained via the purchase of a GRO death certificate sponsored by Tudor Jones of Cardiff

[jonheyworth]

Arthur Edwin Burgis 1484855 | attached to Number 104 PDC | on discharge leave from 30 July, with an effective release date of 18 November, was admitted dangerously ill to the Tower House EMS hospital Salisbury, dying at 23:00 Hours of infantile paralysis