410304 - Unaccounted airman - 4-3-1941

[Henk Welting]

What caused the death of and/or what was the place of death registration for:

P/O Joseph FRIEND - 82313 - not found Flight archives.

Proposed aircraft losses for this day:

Master I - N7782 - 5 FTS - hit balloon barrage near Crewe, Surrey (already have as a casualty on this aircraft: LAC [Pilot u/t] J.W.E. NEWNHAM - 1258210).
Oxford II - W6550 - 14 FTS - crashed on landing Sibson.
Spitfire IIA - P8016 - 6 MU - abandoned Woodmansterne, Surrey.
Tiger Moth II - N6534 - 1 EFTS - crashed at Hatfield.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Friend , 59, is registered at Hammersmith, SW London. I was surprised at the age but it ties in with CWGC. Just a small geography lesson! Crewe is in Cheshire in the West of Middle England and Newnham is registered at Crewe
Regards
Dick

[Ken MacLean]

Henk,

P/O J. FRIEND Died on Active Service, Times 26 March 1941.

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dick and Ken for this excellent info. Won't take long that I know more about the UK rather then my own low country 'Pays Bas'!
Regards,
Henk.

[jonheyworth]

Ernst Strauss 775122, attached to 107 MU, died in a motor transport accident

[jonheyworth]

Raymond James Whitaker 538632, died at 65 Conway Road, Cwmparc, of cardiac faliure brought on by lobar pneumonia, a month later, 27 people were killed in the village in an air raid

[jonheyworth]

Thomas Spears 1117773 , attached to RAF Castletown, died in Dunbar Hospital, Caithness of lobar pneumonia

[jonheyworth]

Joseph Friend 82313 , died at 00:15 Hours in the Royal Masonic hospital , of ruptured quadriceps