410317 - Unaccounted airmen - 17-3-1941

[Henk Welting]

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

LAC John B. BRAND - 846936 - 4 BC, 910 (Balloon) Sqn, Dagenham, Essex) - died of wounds or injuries received on active service;
Sgt (Pilot) Roy H.M. CROOK - 905218 - killed on active service;
AC2 Royston E. HILL - 1299316 - died of wounds or injuries received on active service;
AC2 Arthur KENYON - 1121331 - not found Flight archives, and
LAC (Pilot u/t) Gregory W. LYGO - 927860 - killed on active service.

Proposed aircraft losses for this day:

Hudson I - T9267 - 1 (C)OTU - crashed on take-off Siloth.
Oxford I - N4572 - 14 FTS - crashed on overshoot at night near Haversham, Wolverton, Buckinghamshire.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[dennis_burke]

J B Brand age 36 Essex S W

R H M Crooks age 25 registered North Bucks
G W Lygo Age 19 North Bucks District

R E Hill Age 19 Bristol District

A Kenyon Age 20 Trowbridge district


regards

Dennis

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dennis.
Crooks and Lygo could be candidates for the Oxford N4572.
DaveW: could you confirm please ?
Regards,
Henk.

[dennis_burke]

Henk,

Wolverton is in this district,

you can check any of the districts using this format of web address

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/north%20bucks.html

Replace the district name as necessary.

Dennis

[Henk Welting]

I've to thank my geography teacher !
Regards,
Henk.

[dennis_burke]

AC2 A Kenyon is DOAS - Fligth Mag May 22nd 1941

[davew]

Henk

Nothing in writing to associate Lygo and Crook with the Oxford, but Haversham was certainly in the North Bucks registration area as Dennis says.
regards

DaveW

[Henk Welting]

Thanks DaveW and Dennis for additional info.
Regards,
Henk.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

LAC (Pilot u/t) Gregory W. LYGO - 927860 - the Graves Registration Repoer Form confirms him as being with 14 F.T.S., and an announcement on the Market Harborough Advertiser confirms he died 'as the result of a flying accident.'

Sgt (Pilot) Roy H.M. CROOK - 905218 - the Graves Registration Report Form lists him as also being with 14 F.T.S.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

John George Seymour Simmons 751421 , died at 20 :30 Hours in the county hospital, Redhill of tuberculosis

[jonheyworth]

Arthur Kenyon 1121331 , attached to Number 12 SOTT, was admitted to RAF Melksham station hospital on 11 February , becoming dangerously ill on the 13 February . He died in Winsley Sanatorium, Bath, on discharge leave, of pulmonary tuberculosis with his father , Mr. H Kenyon , of Queen' s Park Road , Haywood, Lancashire, at his bedside

[jonheyworth]

P/0408 Antoni Wroniecki was taken dangerously ill on 9 March suffering with apoplexy dying at 17:30 Hours of heart faliure