410530 - Unaccounted airman - 30-5-1941

[Henk Welting]

What was the place of death registration for AC1 Kenneth BURRAGE - 1257323 - 2 Sqn (Sawbridgworth, Hertfordshire).

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Burrage,17, is registered at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire which would be right for Sawbridgeworth where 2 Sqn was based flying Lysanders(Jefford).He is very young so was possibly completing an Apprenticeship in a Ground Trade when he died.
Regards
Dick

[Ken MacLean]

Henk,

AC1 K. Burrage DOAS, Times 4 August 1941.

Ken

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Ken.

Henk.

[Henk Welting]

Checking CWGC-Registers with my files found the name of an airman sofar missing; what was the place of death registration for:

AC2 Alfred J. BALDOCK - 1224387, age 36.

Regards,
Henk.

[dennis_burke]

He is DOAS in Maidstone District.

I uploaded all the 1941 Flight SA pages and revised that missing page from late 1941 etc

http://www.skynet.ie/~dan/war/flightsa/

regards

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dennis for info on BALDOCK and also for your excellent offer of the Flight pages.
Best regards,
Henk.

[Henk Welting]

Checking CWGC registers found the name of an airman sofar missing in my files. What was the place of death registration for:
AC2 Colin C.E. ROGERS - 1298639 - age 35.
Regards,
Henk.

[dennis_burke]

He is registered in the Flyde District, Lancashire.

And he is Died on Active Service, Flight Magazine 24th July 1941.

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dennis, annotation made.
Regards,
Henk.

[dennis_burke]

You likely have this crash accounted for Henk but for the record:
Cumins Oliver of Carnbane House Lisburn county Antrim leading aircraftsman R.A.F. whose dead body was found in the sea off Gimbbet Rock Pwlheli Wales on the 1 June 1941
Administration Belfast 21 October to John Macbeth Cumins flesher

From Northern Ireland PRONI Wills calenders.

[jonheyworth]

Alfred James Baldock 1224387 , attached to RAF Detling, was killed in a road accident near the airfield at 23:35 hours on the 29th May

[jonheyworth]

Billie Whitehead 536864 , was seriously injured by enemy action in the Battle of Crete and died on board HMHS Maine

[jonheyworth]

Robert George Keenan 552083 , attached to 220 AMES, was seriously wounded in the Battle of Crete . Evacuated to Egypt, he died in Number 63 general hospital of shock and multiple burns

[jonheyworth]

Kenneth Burrage 1257323 , died at Swabridgeworth in the accidental discharge of a rifle

[jonheyworth]

Kenneth Rupert Bennett 1157668 and

Leonard Richard Greenfield 517861 ,

Both attached to RAF HQ Crete , were both wounded in the fighting or evacuation from Crete and died of wounds in Number 8 General hospital in the first instance and in Number 64 General hospital in the latter

[jonheyworth]

Colin Charles Edward Rogers 1298639 ,was admitted to SSQ at the Carlton Hotel, Blackpool, on 31 March, seriously ill with broncho pneumonia. He was removed from the seriously ill list but became dangerously ill on 29 May and was admitted to the Isolation hospital at Longsands, Preston, suffering with scarlet fever. Transferred to RAF hospital, Kirkham he died of miliray tuberculosis