Unit Entry Updates

[jonheyworth]

Just doing the work on the final few and then every WAAF from its inception at the start of the war to VE Day Will be fully accounted for

Rockingham 885756 attached to RAF Debden

Pullen 889772 attached to HQ Fighter Command

Hassett 424890 attached to RAF Warmwell

Callaghan 892229 attached to Number 1 Balloon centre

Archer 2027218 attached to Number 5 MT Company

Laidlaw 2043917 attached to RAF Woodvale

Warth 2069229 attached to Number 3 ITW

Glover 2062466 attached to RAF Tempsford

Dee 2071844 attached to 216 MU

Polglase 683 attached to RAF Portreath

Marr 2060503 attached to Number 70 Signals Wing

Munro 2040886 attached to Number 70 Signals Wing

Oliver 2018720 attached to RAF High Ercall

Perham 2020315 attached to RAF Stradishall

Dougall 439271 attached to 58 OTU

Hussey 5060 attached to RAF Turnhouse

Deas 2040333 attached to RAF Stafford

Evans 439648 attached to 53 OTU

Dyson 3083164 attached to RAF Hospital Torquay

Heath 2061628 attached to RAF Elsham Wolds

Campbell 2042565 attached to 56 OTU

Sarah Elizabeth Wilson 984014 , attached to Number 3 (P) AFU

Phyllis Tucker 2076023 , attached to 32 MU

Eileen Mary Winifred Boyle 432982 , attached to RAF Oban

Rieta Woodall 2039554 , attached to HQ Number 11 Group

Isobel Mary Barker 889835 , attached to 61 OTU

Marguerite Beatrice Burge 2014522 , attached to RAF Tangmere

Jean Armstrong 431850 , attached to Number 1 ( C ) OTU

Patricia Baxter 2141246

Joan Phillis Chandler 6312

Irene Daisy Collett 2148006

All attached to RAF Fairwood Common

Betty Thompson Hasprey 471993 , attached to 24 OTU

Madge Evelyn Lovering 2021853 , attached to RAF Cheadle

Audrey Eileen Welford Smithers 2029533 , attached to RAF Middle Wallop

Patricia Elizabeth Lane 2004740 , attached to Number 15 Group

Janet Wilson Marshall 458266 , attached to RAF Drem

Rosina Doreen Hardcastle 2144297 , attached to 35 Squadron

Joan Norah Lewis 424981 , attached to Number 78 Signals Wing

Mary Dorotha Philip 421944 , attached to RAF Innsworth

Honorarh Mahoney 2032090 , attached to RAF Lakenheath

Jean Ferelith Ramsay 2017309 , attached to RAF Swingate

Daphne Mary Lewis 444211 , attached to RAF Swingate

Margaret Montgomery 475012 , attached to RAF Ayr

Ellner 424920 16 OTU

Cook 440371 RAF Gloucester

Brown 3570 Officer's School Loughborough

Ransome 428028 14 OTU

Cuthberston 2093452 1 Balloon Training Unit

Unwin 3332 AI C4 Department Air Ministry

[jonheyworth]

955493 Coleman ] 3 Signals School ]

627220 Hodgkinson ] 48 MU ]

1200763 Hammond ] RAF Watton ]

1104214 Taylor ] RAF Andover ]

1306406 Jerome ] RAF Debden ]

66036 Knight ] 33 MU ]

993752 Yeoman ] 1 SFTS ]

1257344 Birch ] RAF Catterick ]

1159623 Cole ] 741 Defence Squadron ]

949185 Willoughby ] 16 OTU ]

961875 Grimble ] RAF Exeter ]

1288769 Wood ] RAF Debden ]

516919 Jordan ] 7 EFTS ]

292056 Burgin ] RAF Digby ]

74363 Birch ] RAF Cardington ]

1535828 Humble ] 9 Recruits Centre ]

76272 Bermingham ] 4 MU ]

11377 Rex ] 6 SFTS ]

1211281 Thomas ] 67 MU ]

[jonheyworth]

The Following unaccounted or partial accounted Airmen were attached to the following MU s if you want to enter their Units into the database

Hodgkinson 627220 ] 48 M.U ]
Knight 66036 ] 33 MU ]
Bermingham 76272 ] 4 MU ]
Thomas 1211231 ] 67 MU ]
Hill 651522 ] 87 MU ]
Foster 1230043 ] 34 MU ]
Holman 1427374 ] 14 MU ]
Martin 1401355 ] 218 MU ]
Catherall 335887 ] 49 MU ]
Lawrence 1033578 ] 14 MU ]
Smith 542588 ] 13 MU ]
Allen 5443 ] 24 MU ]
Baxter 1093844 ] 61 MU ]
Gates 866397 ] 49 MU ]
Lees 1020105 ] 69 MU ]
Service 1441404 ] 7 MU ]
Gardiner 1182287 ] 13 MU ]
Gardner 549564 ] 39 MU ]

[jonheyworth]

You can add the following Unit entries to the database for 1942 Airmen

Frame 1338213 ] 14 SoTT ]
Hart 65451 ] RAF Hednesford ]
Parsons 973617 ] 5 PDC ]
Mullett1104557 ] RAF Feltwell ]
Jackson 191382 ] 22 OTU ]
Pike 1214007 ] 101 (G) OTU ]
Trimm 43309 ] Dept of Development & Production ]
Wisedale 613954 ]56 OTU ]
Weaver 391936 ] 88 Works Flight ]
Richards 943139 ] 3 SoTT ]
Fairclough 1102528 ] RAF Tangmere ]
Childe-Freeman 69898 ] RAF Tonbridge]
Wilshire11194438 ] 1 Signals School ]
Mayne 1176480 ] Number 80 Wing ]
Hodgson 1113108 ] 61 Wireless Unit ]
Holl 937711 ] 3 (P) AFU ]
Harvey 100176 ] Public Relations Department ]
Bloomfield 934667 ] Number 1 Mobile Balloon Unit ]
Hatton 1216143 ] Number 14 ITW ]
McDermott 857362 ] 27 OTU ]

[RecklessRat]

Hi Jon,

65451 (https://www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/details.php?qnum=79156) F/O Kenneth William Goodwin HART

YOUNG GRIMSBY DENTIST Death After Operation At Sheffield Mr K W G Hart Mr Mrs H G Hart 40 Weelsby-road died in Sheffield hospital yesterday He was only years old Mr Hart was serving with the RAFVR as dentist taken ill He underwent an operation but despite he succumbed He was engaged to be married. The funeral has been for Saturday morning

Thursday 12 March 1942
Newspaper: Grimsby Daily Telegraph


Flying Officer Kenneth William Hart RAFVR Sheffield son Mr Mrs H G Hart 40 Weelsby-road Grimsby aged 22 years Funeral Saturday Scarthoe-road Cemetery 1120 am

Friday 13 March 1942
Newspaper: Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph


If anyone has a current subscription to the British newspaper archive (https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1942-03-01/1942-03-31?basicsearch=uianied&exactsearch=true&retrievecountrycounts=false&newspapertitle=grimsby%2bdaily%2btelegraph&sortorder=2) they may be able to fill in some of the gaps in the first entry.

Regards,

Jeff