410205 - Unaccounted airmen - 5-2-1941

[Henk Welting]

What caused the death of and/or what were the places of death registration for:

AC1 John CADMAN - 947994;
AC2 Robin MABBOT - 1173610;
LAC (P/ut) George W. PARNELL - 1163982, and
AC2 Peter ROSS - 1351249.
Names of all four not found Flight archives.

Also Sgt Lionel H. PHILLIPS - 905311 - reported page 19 of Flight 2-1-1941 (!) as being wounded or injured on active service.

Proposed aircraft losses for this day:
Master I - N7822 - 8 FTS - crashed on approach at night, Montrose.
Oxford II - P1816 - 2 CFS - crashed in forced landing 1 mile SSE of Waddington.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Amrit]

MABBOT is reported as having Died on Active Service in The Times

A

[thorne83]

Cadman - death registered in Sunderland aged 24
Mabbot (spelt Mabbott) - Newmarket aged 20.
Parnell - not registered so maybe in Scotland?
Ross - not registered
Phillips - registered in Aylesbury, aged 31

Cheers, Tom

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Amrit and Tom for your help.
Regards,
Henk.

[alclark]

Parnell was in Scotland,

No.8 FTS February 5th 1941, “No.1163982 LAC Parnell, G.W., (27 Course), killed while night flying in Master N7822. Investigation held on 10/2/41.”

[wwrsimon]

A bit of further information on CADMAN:

John Cadman died in hospital two days after he was severely injured when his motor cycle was in collision with a lorry in Seaburn. He died in Monkwearmouth and Southwick Hospital, Sunderland.

Source is a news item in the Sunderland Echo of Thursday 6th February 1941.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Peter Ross 1351249, attached to 20 OTU, died from head injuries caused by a self inflicted gunshot wound

[jonheyworth]

Harry Walton 643435 , was admitted seriously ill to Port Sudan Civil hospital on 2 February where he died of dystentry

[jonheyworth]

Rupert Bennett Hester 62262, died of heart faliure is SSQ at RAF Leconfield

[malcolm_raf]

5 Feb 1941

"Rupert Bennett Hester 62262, died of heart faliure is SSQ at RAF Leconfield"

I have his heart failure occurring after undergoing an operation (253 ORB), which I doubt was performed in the SSQ at Leconfield, more likely Beverley Base Hospital?

Malcolm