410226 - Unaccounted airmen - 26-2-1941

[Henk Welting]

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

Sgt (Obs u/t) Archibald R. BURROW - 759248 - killed on active service;
P/O (Pilot) Peter W. JEFFERY - 86407 - killed on active service;
S/Ldr Jack K. MEGAW - 28049 - killed on active service, and
Sgt (Wop/Ag) Eric A.V. SPENCER - 581537.

Proposed aircraft losses for this day:

Battle I - L5011 - 6 AACU - crashed in forced landing Low Meathop, Lancashire.
Blenheim IV - N3571 - 2 SAC - dived into ground at night Andover.
Tiger Moth II - N6641 - 22 EFTS - flew into ground Denny Abbey, near Waterbeach.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Henk Welting]

Sgt SPENCER was also killed on active service.
Henk.

[Ross_McNeill]

Hi Henk,

Jeffrey confirmed as pilot of Blenheim N3571

Regards
Ross

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Warner's Blenheim has Burrow,24 and Spencer,25 as the crew of N3571 . Their deaths are registered at Andover as you have them, but Warner spells Burrow as Burlow which I think might be his error. I found an Eric J K Megaw, 30. registered at Cardiff and that was the name that came up on CWGC
Edit: To back Ross, Jeffery,22, is also registered at Andover
Regards
Dick

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dick and Ross for this excellent help.
Regards,
Henk.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

Sgt (Wop/Ag) Eric A.V. SPENCER - 581537 - the Graves Registration Report Form confirms him as being with '2 S. of A.C.' as do the entries for Burrow and Jeffrey.

S/Ldr Jack K. MEGAW - 28049 - Eric Jack Kennedy Megaw. He's listed as being with 8 A.A.C.U. on the Graves Registration Report Form. The National Probate Calendar records that he died at Penylan Terrace, Cardiff. Maybe a victim of the Cardiff Blitz?

More about him here:

http://www.hambo.org/kingscanterbury/view_man.php?id=66

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Bertram Newton 335390 , attached to Number 5 SFTS, was admitted seriously ill to RAF hospital, Wilmslow on 19 December, becoming dangerously ill on 22 December, dying of cereberal compression

[jonheyworth]

Hugh Aitken Galloway Bledge 1024054 , attached to 3 Wing of Number 4 SOTT, died in RAF Hospital, St. Athan of a coronary thrombosis caused by heart disease

[jonheyworth]

Leonard Henry Holmes 865135 , was admitted dangerously ill to the RN Hospital Plymouth on 29 November 1940 , dying of a sub chronic abscess