430128 - Unaccounted airmen - 28-1-1943

[Henk Welting]

What were the places of death registration for:

A - Died on active service:
AC1 Roderick A. MacDONALD - 1074720 - age 33, and
LAC John B. PATRICK - 1081463.

B - Not found in Flight archives:
AC1 Frederick WHITE - 1221035 - 19 Sqn (Perranporth, Cornwall).

C - Proposed aircraft loss for this day:
Botha I - L6508 - 4 FPP - crashed in forced landing Caldwell Rock, Renfrewshire.

D - Also looking for info on:
S/Ldr Douglas W.S. IRELAND - 70340, whose name is commemorated on Panel 118 of the Runnymede Memorial.

Regards and thanks for your help.
Henk.

[alclark]

I have found this from the No.1 Torpedo Training Unit ORB:

January 29th 1943, “Report has been received that Anson aircraft piloted by S/Ldr D.W.S. Ireland has not arrived at R.A.F Station Carew Cheriton. Search parties have been detailed to look for missing aircraft.”

There was another entry on the 31st stating that the aircraft and pilot were now presumed lost.

[COL BRUGGY]

Hello,

Possibly: Anson I R9628 - 217/3 OTU/5 OTU - Missing in unit move 28-1-1943. (N.F.D.).

See:
The Anson File. Sturtivant,R. p.64

5 OPERATIONAL TRAINING UNIT.

3-16.5.42 TURNBERRY, the size of the unit being increased and Hampdens introduced, establishment now 36 + 11 Beaufort, 36 + 11 Hampden, 14 + 4 Anson/Oxford, 4 + 1 TT; 11.11.42. to provided for major increase in torpedo training, a torpedo section equipped was detached to No.1 TTU, Turnberry, where it merged with that unit 1.1.43.

See:
Royal Air Force Flying and Training Units.
Sturtivant,R., Hamlin,J & J J Halley.
Tunbridge Wells:Air Britain(Historians),1997
p.234
Check 2nd ed. for updates.

Col.

[Dick]

Hi Henk
Patrick,29, registered at Aylesbury,Buckinghamshire.? RAF Halton hospital
White,36, registered at Uxbridge, Middlesex.Cwgc has his wife as being from Southall,Middlesex which is close to Uxbridge and may be within the reporting area although it is not specifically mentioned.It might be that he died whilst on leave from Cornwall.
Didn't find Mac Donald
Regards
Dick

[Henk Welting]

Thanks friends for your help.
Col: Air Britain for Anson R9628: Missing on ferry flight in bad weather, Long Kesh to Turnberry; pres. ditched.
Regards,
Henk.

[Theletterwriter]

Henk

AC1 Roderick Andrew McDonald 1074720 : Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland. The Statutory Death Record has his name as McDonald not MacDonald.

Douglas

[Henk Welting]

Thanks Douglas for your info on Scottish death registrations.

Henk.

[wwrsimon]

Hello

AC1 Roderick A. MacDONALD - 1074720 - the Statutory Deaths Register on the Scotland's People website records that he died at 5.25 p.m. at Ayrshire Central Hospital, Kilwinning, due to diptheria, post-diptheric paralysis and myocarditis.

Regards

Simon

[jonheyworth]

Frank Astles 113084 , attached to Number 41 WU , died in Number 53 general hospital of a fractured skull sustained in a road accident, having been first admitted to the Greek hospital

[jonheyworth]

Frank Astles 113084, the unit C/O , was fatally injured in a road accident on a unit move from Marfaq into Palestine when vehicles F 4920 and F 3036 collided at Hadera crossroads on 23 January at 08:15 Hours. Admitted to the the Greek Hospital at Hadera, he was transferred to Number 53 General hospital where he died of his injuries

[jonheyworth]

Jan Kilmczak ( KLINCZAK in his records ) P/782750 , was admitted seriously ill to RAF hospital Henlow on 21 January, where he died of a perforated duodenal ulcer