410606 - Unaccounted airmen - 6-6-1941

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

LAC Thomas H. HARBOTTLE - 995015;
Sgt Frederick W. ROGERS - 560691, and
LAC Ronald WHITE-SAUNDERS - 1288782.

Proposed aircraft losses for this day:

Tiger Moth II - N6465 - RAF Speke - flew into ground near Speke.
Anson I - N9733 - 11 AONS - crashed in forced landing 2 miles NE of Lechlade, Gloucestershire.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Harbottle,25,registered at Newcastle on Tyne ,Northumberland
CWGC doesn't give an age for Frederick W Rogers but his Service No shows him to have been an Aircraft Apprentice entering in 1926.There is a Frederick W Rogers registered at Bristol with an age of 58, rather old, even for a 1926 ex Apprentice, but not impossible
I couldn't find White-Saunders.
Regards
Dick

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Dick, some more for 7th June in next thread.
Regards,
Henk.

[dennis_burke]

T A Harbottle, note middle initial on CWGC and In Flight, DOAS

LAC R F White-Saunders is DOAS - registered age 31 in the Stamford District, Lincolnshire

As is Sgt F W Rogers, DOAS

[Martyn A Critchlow]

Sgt Frederick W. ROGERS - 560691 - aged shown as 30, accidental death, killed instantly when his motor cycle was in collision with a lorry on a bridge in Lacock.
(Western Morning News, 31 July 1941)

Death registered in Chippenham, Wilts.

Martyn

[Tony H]

1288872 LAC Ronald Frederick White-Saunders (Age 31) was killed in an RTC (no further details available) Burial location; All Saints Churchyard, Wittering, Cambridgeshire

Trade NK

Tony H

[wwrsimon]

Hello

LAC Thomas H. HARBOTTLE - 995015 - the Newcastle Journal of June 7th 1941 carried the following announcement:

HARBOTTLE – Whitley Bay, 6, Queen’s Drive, June 6th, at Emergency Hospital, Newcastle, L.A.C. Thomas Alan (R.A.F.). Cremation private. No flowers.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Thomas Alan Harbottle 995015 , attached to HQ 13 Group, died in Newcastle General hospital of a generalised thrombosis

[jonheyworth]

Frederick William Rogers 560692 | attached to Number 9 SFTS | was killed in a motorcycle accident at Lacock, Wiltshire

[jonheyworth]

Frederick William Rogers 560691 | was killed when his motorcycle collided with a lorry on a bridge in Lacock, Wiltshire.

Thus was entered in 2019 by wwrsimon but the entry has become muddled and needs correcting. He did not die in RAF hospital Kirkham as currently stated in this database